Posts by Hawks-eye

LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks and real-time collab

Re: All you need

The issue is compatibility. The index generation and fine detail page makeup is not the same as Word. So you get a word doc edit it in libre office, save it back as Word, open it in Word and it's no longer the same layout. And thus no-one moves, as Word is the standard

How a good business deal made us underestimate BASIC

Re: Pyton is the current Basic

Python is an unneeded ugly reading language. No need for it. Use C or VB

Re: A novice does not know the difference between RAM and disk, and they should not have to

Please buy an SSD and you won't notice the speed diff between ram and "disk".

Funny how upperty snotty nosed some "language" self proclaimed experts like my fellow Dutchman are. I remember that rediculous statement. You can program beautifully in Basic. Started in Algol-68, then Pascal, then Fortran and Basic on HP-86. Worked well. Did C which is a horrible language to read, full of bugs that can hang you, that later on morphed into C#. What have all these language wars brought us over the past 40 years? Nothing other than endless rewrites of libraries, never yielding a faultless library of code. Now it is Rust, apparently better than C cause you can't trust a programmer with Malloc() . What nonsense. Rather use chatgpt to check the code.

My preferred language is VB and VBA. Beautiful to read. Easy to understand and thus to maintain for non experts. Remember code is read 95% of the time! As for speed and integration, what you write in VB inegrates at the op code level with C#. As for VBA, it is about 50% more productive than python, and just as fast, if you use Excell as your display library.

So go VB. Good stuff :)

Oh yes, HP-85. I worked on the HP-86. Wrote an unpurge program in Basic. And loved the HP-IB. Used it to measure shearing of soil samples.

The US government wants developers to stop using C and C++

The minute I read Java as memory safe I switch off. Java is unsafe in its entirety. As for C and C++ being unsafe all languages are unsafe the minute you have a conditional statement. And surely a simple library and code checker can make memory management safe?

WordPress bans WP Engine from sponsoring or participating in user groups

Can these two moguls please cool it

We rely on WordPress. This fraud is doingbuntold damage. One dude cannot have the say over the open source project. Sort out your money and greed differences elsewhere. This is infuriating. Both boys needs a few with the strap