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Direction 2 21 (12/23/2011 9:28:04 PM) comp.programming Is .NET the only way forward? I hope not. Where will developers go? -- Joe Wright "If you rob Peter to pay Paul you can depend on the support of Paul." ... Joe

OT Thunderbird 3 8 35 (4/19/2011 1:35:24 AM) comp.lang.c Off Topic to be sure. Bear with me if you can. I've been using Mozilla's Thunderbird happily for years through version 2. But now at version 3+ it is a DOG! Do any of my friends here have similar experience? ... Joe

C99 question #4 25 29 (4/10/2011 9:59:55 PM) comp.lang.c Given.. for (int i = 0; i < 10; ++i) { ... } ...when the for loop exits, is i still visible? I'd say yes but a professional instructor in things C* says i disappears at the ending '}'. -- Joe Wright "I... Joe

Learningtree course 502 0 31 (4/3/2011 1:48:28 AM) comp.programming I'm embarking on this course on Tuesday. Have any of you taken this course? Was it good for you? -- Joe Wright "If you rob Peter to pay Paul you can depend on the support of Paul." ... Joe

When you come to a fork in the road, take it. (Yogi Berra) 7 21 (11/11/2010 3:00:44 AM) comp.programming I've been writing command line stuff in C, dBASE III, Clipper, Visual FoxPro and now xHarbour for over 10 years for the same client. I have proven myself proficient in these languages and am highly regarded. ... Joe

Windows 7 and Clipper 1 56 (7/14/2010 8:21:32 PM) comp.lang.clipper Have any of you (us?) found a way to run Clipper apps under: Windows 7 32-bit and/or Windows 7 64-bit -- Joe Wright "If you rob Peter to pay Paul you can depend on the support of Paul." ... Joe

Up jumped the devil 3 28 (11/11/2009 9:53:01 PM) comp.lang.xharbour I thought we had this whipped but.. Assume the current directory is work. Assume a subdirectory images. Assume a table, work\images\foo.dbf set path to images Now try to create foo.dbf in work. db = {} aadd... Joe

Mr Ed 16 40 (11/8/2009 4:44:59 AM) comp.lang.c Why do you post here at comp.lang.c? You show no respect for anybody here and no knowledge of the subject, C. That Heathfield and now Seebach treat you seriously is mystery to me but, of course, their busines... Joe

Testing dll 4 38 (11/6/2009 12:05:11 AM) comp.lang.xharbour I reported this here some time ago and Ron, I think it was, assured me it would be fixed in the next release. /* Testing .dll */ procedure main for i = 1 to 10 ? i next return Compiling wi... Joe

xPrompt 0 45 (10/25/2009 12:21:11 AM) comp.lang.xharbour Why wouldn't xPrompt clean up the screen before it exits? -- Joe Wright "If you rob Peter to pay Paul you can depend on the support of Paul." ... Joe

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Testing if a pointer is valid 283 81 (9/17/2011 10:29:38 PM) comp.lang.c In a recent discussion about preconditions, I argued that testing ALL preconditions would be unpractical. As an example of a precondition impossible to test I presented the problem to know if a pointer points ... jacob31 (869)

initialization of local static variable 40 41 (10/7/2011 6:33:47 AM) comp.lang.c consider the following program x.c: #include #include char first[] = "test message"; void display(void) { static char* p_first = first + 5; printf("%s\n", p_first); char second[] =... subramanian100in (346)

John McCarthy died today. 87 36 (10/25/2011 12:44:13 AM) comp.lang.c He must have been waiting to outlive someone who perverted his inventions with dumb syntax: (if cond then else) -> cond ? then : else ... kaz15 (1129)

Roslyn compilers 5 23 (10/25/2011 2:55:04 PM) comp.programming why rewrite both c# and vb compilers. Without starting some kind of language debate, why can't Microsoft rewrite only one of the compilers? Why the duplicated effort? ... long3131 (2)

comparison error 13 18 (10/27/2011 11:58:52 PM) comp.lang.c I get a comparison error here and I see the problem but don't know how to fix it. It's been so long. Here's the code. #include int main(int argc, char **argv) { if (argc != 2) { perror("argc error"... nospam116 (1187)

Which lean C compiler for 32-bit OS development 92 45 (11/12/2011 9:22:45 AM) comp.lang.c Help! I've written a fair amount of C code over the years and always interfaced it with other C. Now I'm looking to interface it with non-C code I'm struggling to find a compiler to do what I want. I'm looking ... james.harris.1 (384)

OK. LETS START REAL PROGRAMMING IN C FOR PROBLEMS!!! 88 40 (11/20/2011 7:12:06 PM) comp.lang.c PROBLEM 1: COMPUTE THE EULER'S NUMBER UP TO 30 DIGITS AFTER 1. THE DIGIT REQUIRED SHOULD BE PARAMETER BY THE CALLER! PROBLEM 2: COMPUTE PI AS IN THE ABOVE! PROBLEM 3: LIST ALL PERMUTATIONS OF A STRING WITHOU... dihedral88888 (782)

Size of an arraylist in bytes 107 23 (11/20/2011 9:01:44 PM) comp.lang.java.programmer Hi All, I create an Arraylist tmp and add some integers to it. Afterward, I measure the size of tmp in bytes (by converting tmp to bytes array). Assume the result is byte[] C. However, when I update an element... sarasara82 (31)

avis #2 6 43 (12/8/2011 12:49:46 AM) comp.programming Do .avi's have data and code or are they just data? Bill ... nospam116 (1187)

Renaming directories 5 26 (2/16/2012 8:54:05 PM) comp.lang.xharbour Does anyone know of a way to rename a directory in xHarbour app? Thanks. Cal ... c9057 (55)