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After the demo?
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No, after the demo the customer has a bunch of new features they need.
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You laugh, but this was the policy (and still is) of my last place of employment...
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Only there?
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Much sympathy - obviously the admin is useless and feels threatened. Hope you find a new position soon!
'Howard
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What a start! Too bad, that sounds like some crap. When I apply for a job next time I will ask to see samples of their code. Or at least ask them about their coding standards etc.
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I would work for free for a week just so I could find out whats the real deal is. It would be worth the vacation time just to find out all the politics.
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I woulda quit on the spot.
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While quitting on the spot does sound appropriate many have obligations to family/creditors that don't allow that luxury. Still, I would move on as soon as reasonably possible.
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I suppose. I have kids and creditors and the possibility would arise very quickly.
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The admin sounds like he has issue, coming in and screaming like that. Geeze.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
"Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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a friend of mine - many years ago - was asked to port a physics simulation program from one platform to another. The software performed beautifully, was efficient, and had won awards for educational excellence etc.
the source code was several thousand lines of assembly, which was large but not too large for that platform and era.
The program had two comments in it, one word each. They were not helpful.
The variable naming convention was even more interesting. It seems the original author [a physicist/mathematician, in all fairness] treated variable names like a Pez dispenser. The first variable in the program was named "A", the second was named "B", and so on. When he got to Z he started over with A1, then B1, etc.
The program had a lot of variables, I think the last variable was named BB21.
Porting the application was not too difficult, as the two platforms had very similar instruction sets. Debugging it, on the other hand, was an exercise in insanity!
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Steven A. Lowe wrote: The first variable in the program was named "A", the second was named "B", and so on. When he got to Z he started over with A1, then B1, etc.
Steven A. Lowe wrote: I think the last variable was named BB21.
Impossible: no physicist/mathematician will conclude such a series with BB21 .
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I spent too much time dealing with numerical modelling suites written in FORTRAN written exactly the same way. Thousands and thousands of lines, and all the variables "x", "xx", "xxx" etc.
Comments? We're physicists, not literary majors. We don't need no stinkin' comments. The code is obvious anyway...
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: Comments? We're physicists, not literary majors. We don't need no stinkin' comments. The code is obvious anyway...
... 30 minutes of pensive pacing. As I said, it's obvious.
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Chris Maunder wrote: numerical modelling suites written in FORTRAN written exactly the same way. Thousands and thousands of lines, and all the variables "x", "xx", "xxx" etc.
Ah yes, I do recall my grandfather's Fortran IV book being loaded with this kind of stuff
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
"Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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Actually, once the application is run through an obfuscator tool, the output code would be like this. Isn't it?
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: the output code would be like this. Isn't it?
Depends. I did give the Skater obfuscator a try, and it has the ability to create non-printable member/method names. It does crash a certain useful tool when obfuscated in such a manner.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
"Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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Amazing! His friend has a mind like an obfuscator.
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When dealing with punch cards, short variable names are a blessing.
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so is a lighter
(this program definitely did not originate on punch cards, it was on an Apple ][e!)
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Steven A. Lowe wrote: so is a lighter
Punch cards are great for the fireplace on cold winter nights
About your reference to the Apple ][e, I remember my old Commodore 64 and 128 were limited to only the first characters counting in the variable name.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
"Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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hmmm...i don't remember that being a limit of the macro-assembler, but then again i don't remember a lot of things from way back then
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I don't recall what the limit was in the macro assembler, but in Commodore Basic it was only the first two characters counting.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
"Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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