On 12/16/25 20:54, rbowman wrote:
On Tue, 16 Dec 2025 21:45:42 - (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
On Mon, 15 Dec 2025 12:57:57 +, mm0fmf wrote:
On 14 Dec 2025 11:56:42 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
My issues with python are:
- It's using indentations, so when I comment a block of
On 12/20/25 05:12, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
candycanearter07
writes:
Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote at 02:05 this Sunday (GMT):
On 13 Dec 2025 11:55:35 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
Everything else is just a lot of lies. They pretend it's not
strongly typed, but in the real world you will only
On 12/19/25 14:38, rbowman wrote:
On Fri, 19 Dec 2025 03:30:56 -0500, c186282 wrote:
The ed in Midnight Commander is a bit better, AND you can use it
easily over SSH.
Back in the days of DJGPP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJGPP
I ported MC back to Windows, from whence it came as a
On 12/18/25 13:00, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
Peter Flass writes:
I comment *A LOT*. When I had to go back and revisit some very old
code, I wished I had commented more. I've almost never looked at a
program and said "I wish it had fewer comments."
Regrettably, I’ve encountered plenty of comme
On 12/18/25 09:40, Peter Flass wrote:
On 12/17/25 20:10, c186282 wrote:
On 12/17/25 14:17, rbowman wrote:
On Wed, 17 Dec 2025 03:11:09 -0500, c186282 wrote:
Probably 50% of the text in my code - doesn't matter which lang
- is
'comments'.
I looked at some of my code
On 12/18/25 13:38, rbowman wrote:
On Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:43:49 GMT, Scott Lurndal wrote:
rbowman writes:
On Thu, 18 Dec 2025 08:03:47 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
rbowman wrote:
I keep it simple and use the first column, s/^/#/ in vim. s/^#// to
make them go away.
Ctrl-V, down, I, '# ', Es
On 12/19/25 03:18, rbowman wrote:
On Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:56:11 -0500, c186282 wrote:
On 12/18/25 13:38, rbowman wrote:
On Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:43:49 GMT, Scott Lurndal wrote:
rbowman writes:
On Thu, 18 Dec 2025 08:03:47 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
rbowman wrote:
I keep it simple and use
On 12/18/25 14:22, rbowman wrote:
On Thu, 18 Dec 2025 04:25:35 -0500, c186282 wrote:
But isn't && and || more better ? If the
meaning is more obscure then it MUST be better !
Perfectly obvious. BTW any language that can't do bit operations should be
drowned at bi
On 12/15/25 07:57, mm0fmf wrote:
On 14/12/2025 23:29, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
On 14 Dec 2025 11:56:42 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
My issues with python are:
- It's using indentations, so when I comment a block of code to see
''' and ''' are your friend
And maybe stop using edlin etc.
On 12/17/25 14:17, rbowman wrote:
On Wed, 17 Dec 2025 03:11:09 -0500, c186282 wrote:
Probably 50% of the text in my code - doesn't matter which lang - is
'comments'.
I looked at some of my code and it's pretty much comment free. There are a
couple of .c files
On 12/18/25 01:54, rbowman wrote:
On Wed, 17 Dec 2025 23:02:24 -0500, c186282 wrote:
Oh, I usually write "i=i+2". It's a bit more clear and becomes the
same code anyway. += is more a 'C' thing.
And Python, C#, JavaScript, C++, ...
Well, I know it *wor
On 12/17/25 22:28, John Levine wrote:
According to c186282 :
Well ... I'll better understand, and be able to mod, my
old programs better than you. I find 'excessive' commenting
anything BUT 'excessive'. I *enjoy* writing out the meaning
and implicat
On 12/17/25 17:11, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
On Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:17:30 -0500, Dan Espen wrote:
Lawrence D’Oliveiro writes:
On Mon, 15 Dec 2025 12:57:57 +, mm0fmf wrote:
On 14 Dec 2025 11:56:42 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
My issues with python are:
- It's using indentations, s
On 3/4/26 17:35, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
On Wed, 4 Mar 2026 14:09:58 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:
On 3/4/26 13:29, Carlos E.R. wrote:
On 2026-03-04 21:01, Ted Nolan wrote:
.
A man with one clock knows what time it is. A man with two is
never quite sure...
Experimental science would not a
On 3/5/26 14:02, Carlos E.R. wrote:
On 2026-03-05 18:42, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
On 2026-03-05, Peter Flass wrote:
On 3/4/26 15:35, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
On Wed, 4 Mar 2026 14:09:58 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:
On 3/4/26 13:29, Carlos E.R. wrote:
On 2026-03-04 21:01, Ted Nolan wrote:
.
On 3/13/26 19:28, Pancho wrote:
On 3/13/26 21:49, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
On Fri, 13 Mar 2026 09:34:06 +, Pancho wrote:
I just don't want applications built on quicksand libraries.
Depending on someone else’s library saves you effort. But then someone
else has to maintain the library.
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