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several minutes ago. We don't need no stinkin' tactical nukes.
(By the way, do you have change for 10 million people?) --lwall
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The nightmares have returned (Score:1)
On a very short-lived project that I was assigned to, my primary responsibility was to port a particular astrodynamics engine to Java from C. The program had previously been ported to C from Fortran, and to Fortran from some ungodly, unknown language for an old HP paper-tape computer. I was the first actual programmer to look at said program, and all the previous ports were exactly like you described: literal translations from one language to the next.
Function parameters were a through z. All local var
Re:The nightmares have returned (Score:1)
It has just made me curious about what happens after Z9... Maybe AA1?
The entry in my diary is like yours: varia
-- Godoy.
That (Score:1)
wow (Score:1)
The great thing about multitasking is that several things can go wrong at once.
I had something less horrorific (Score:2)
The code was provided in two forms: Java that didn't work, and a spreadsheet that did work. Neither form was clear to read. Since the spreadsheet worked, I started off with a literal translation of that document. Instead of your Label200 things, I had oodles of