[ale] .NET considered harmful

[Charles Shapiro]

Well, that was certainly an entertaining discussion.

FWIW I recently completed a project in Microsoft Access, but I will
keep it off my resume lest I be asked to do another one.  Writing it
involved several breaks while I walked outside the building to cool
off.  Did you know that if you rename a query in Microsoft Access, it
STOPS WORKING??  The only successful way I have found to change the
name of a query is to open it in the editor (finding the editor is
another Exercise in Frustration), copy the text of the query, create a
_new_ query in the new name, then paste the contents of the old query
into it.  Wow.
Under certain circumstances, I also found it possible to create a
database query which neither worked nor was editable, since there's a
built-in syntax checker which won't let you save a bad query. Unless,
of course, it _does_ let you save it but won't let you edit it.  _Way_
fun.

Chris, I'm about a week into experimenting with an  Arduino ("Baby
talk programming for pothead") breadboard kit.  One of the very khoul
things about it is that the programming language in the SDK is
actually C++, albeit with a main() which is not easily accessible from
the toolkit. You write a "void setup()" and "void loop()" routine
instead. The chip I have has only 32K of memory, so I probly won't fit
a very complicated object hierarchy in there, and I certainly won't
try using templates.  So far it's been very entertaining to try to
debug ( really simple ) projects from both ends, hardware and
software.  Under the covers, on linux at least, they're using g++, so
presumably the nifty new stuff comin' down the pike in C++0x should
work too.

-- CHS

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> All of my blithering is Creative Commons :-) Use it until the windows guy
> quits!
>
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Mike Harrison <cluon at geeklabs.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, Jim Kinney wrote:
>>
>> > I replied that I can replace windows with linux faster
>> > than their windows admin can stop me.
>>
>> Snort!
>>
>> May I steal/borrow/plagerize that line with permission, please. :)
>>
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