Originally posted by MissOleumIn my school we get thrown into VB right away. 😕
you get a "student language" when you're learning computer programming, they don't chuck you straight into VB or whatever - so why not with English? Grade 2 kids don't read and write standard English, they have a cutdown version with short words and basic sentence construction. The trouble starts when adults think Grade 2 standard is where they should st ...[text shortened]... ak for "too lazy or stupid to take any trouble so I'll slag off anybody who does" 😳
Originally posted by MissOleumit used to be FORTRAN-IV, not a student language, and God help if you if you ever got stuck with VB ... yuck 😛 ...
you get a "student language" when you're learning computer programming, they don't chuck you straight into VB or whatever - so why not with English? Grade 2 kids don't read and write standard English, they have a cutdown version with short words and basic sentence construction. The trouble starts when adults think Grade 2 standard is where they should st ...[text shortened]... ak for "too lazy or stupid to take any trouble so I'll slag off anybody who does" 😳
Originally posted by MissOleumhttp://www.gshotts.com/HUMOR/canon1.htm
We actually got a college-invented language called ELITE before being allowed to play with the big boys - but then I'm of the COBOL punch-card generation 😵
Selecting a Programming Language
Assembler - A formula I race car. Very fast but difficult to drive and maintain.
FORTRAN II - A Model T Ford. Once it was the king of the road.
FORTRAN IV - A Model A Ford.
FORTRAN 77 - a six-cylinder Ford Fairlane with standard transmission and no seat belts.
COBOL - A delivery van. It's bulky and ugly but it does the work.
BASIC - A second-hand Rambler with a rebuilt engine and patched upholstery. Your dad bought it for you to learn to drive. You'll ditch it as soon as you can afford a new one.
PL/I - A Cadillac convertable with automatic transmission, a two-tone paint job, white-wall tires, chrome exhaust pipes, and fuzzy dice hanging in the windshield.
C - A black Firebird, the all macho car. Comes with optional seatbelt (lint) and optional fuzz buster (escape to assembler).
ALGOL 60 - An Austin Mini. Boy that's a small car.
Pascal - A Volkswagon Beetle. It's small but sturdy. Was once popular with intellectual types.
Modula II - A Volkswagon Rabbit with a trailer hitch.
ALGOL 68 - An Aston Martin. An impressive car but not just anyone can drive it.
LISP - An electric car. It's simple but slow. Seat belts are not available.
PROLOG/LUCID - Prototype concept cars.
Maple/MACSYMA - All-terrain vehicles.
FORTH - A go-cart.
LOGO - A kiddie's replica of a Rolls Royce. Comes with a real engine and a working horn.
APL - A double-decker bus. It takes rows and columns of passengers to the same place all at the same time but it drives only in reverse and is instrumented in Greek.
Ada - An army-green Mercedes-Benz staff car. Power steering, power brakes, and automatic transmission are standard. No other colors or options are available. If it's good enough for generals, it's good enough for you.
http://www.gshotts.com/HUMOR/canon1.htm
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR C PROGRAMMERS
By Henry Spencer
Thou shalt run lint frequently and study its pronouncements with care, for verily its perception and judgement oft exceed thine.
Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer, for chaos and madness await thee at its end.
Thou shalt cast all function arguments to the expected type if they are not of that type already, even when thou art convinced that this is unnecessary, lest they take cruel vengeance upon thee when thou least expect it.
If thy header files fail to declare the return types of thy library functions, thou shalt declare them thyself with the most meticulous care, lest grievous harm befall thy program.
Thou shalt check the array bounds of all strings (indeed, all arrays), for surely where thou typest ``foo'' someone someday shall type ``supercalifragilisticexpialidocious''.
If a function be advertised to return an error code in the event of difficulties, thou shalt check for that code, yea, even though the checks triple the size of thy code and produce aches in thy typing fingers, for if thou thinkest ``it cannot happen to me'', the gods shall surely punish thee for thy arrogance.
Thou shalt study thy libraries and strive not to reinvent them without cause, that thy code may be short and readable and thy days pleasant and productive.
Thou shalt make thy program's purpose and structure clear to thy fellow man by using the One True Brace Style, even if thou likest it not, for thy creativity is better used in solving problems than in creating beautiful new impediments to understanding.
Thy external identifiers shall be unique in the first six characters, though this harsh discipline be irksome and the years of its necessity stretch before thee seemingly without end, lest thou tear thy hair out and go mad on that fateful day when thou desirest to make thy program run on an old system.
Thou shalt foreswear, renounce, and abjure the vile heresy which claimeth that ``All the world's a VAX'', and have no commerce with the benighted heathens who cling to this barbarous belief, that the days of thy program may be long even though the days of thy current machine be short.