Are the posted questions getting worse?

  • Florian Reischl (5/6/2009)


    Alvin,

    I have to confirm Bob. Because I am more a C#y than a VBly I would say "null" is always better than "Nothing"

    BTW: In contrast to Bob I really hope that all you (maybe especially Alvin) don't sound like your avatars! :laugh:

    That gives me an idea. Maybe we should suggest to Firefox, or SlyFox, Foxtrott or whatever his name is to ask MS to add the keyword "Dunno" to all of the .NET languages? 😀 Maybe an "ItDepends" would be useful as well 😉

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  • :sick:

    CREATE SCHEMA [%]

    GO

    CREATE TABLE [%].[%] (Id INT IDENTITY PRIMARY KEY, i INT, [-] INT, [AND] INT, [*] INT, [%] VARCHAR(10))

    CREATE INDEX [master.sys.objects] ON [%].[%] ([-]) INCLUDE ([*])

    INSERT INTO [%].[%] SELECT 1, 2, 3, 4, 'blah'

    SELECT i + [-] * [AND] % [*] [%]

    FROM [%].[%]

    WHERE [%].[%].[%] = 'blah'

    DROP TABLE [%].[%]

    DROP SCHEMA [%]

  • [font="Verdana"]Does anyone remember a language called Algol? I believe that in the original form, it had no concept of "reserved words", so it was perfectly valid to write expressions like:

    if if then then else else

    Of course, you could really confuse matters with:

    if else then if else then

    ... Or was that PL/1?

    Bring back PROLOG, I say!

    [/font]

  • Bob Hovious (5/6/2009)


    But do you look like your avatar, Roy?

    P.S. It's good to see you back online. I can't remember if I said that earlier.

    Bob looks like his.



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  • And Flo?



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  • [font="Verdana"]I don't look like mine: the eyes are the wrong colour.[/font]

  • ...and GSquared is invisible ???

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  • Flo, are you sure anyone can read that?

    Me am happy and a Newbee, you know... So my question is

    SELECT FROM FROM FROM WHERE FROM = FROM OR FROM = 'ItDepends'

    This no work. Giving me too many cells. Give me the answer. Now. Immediately please!!!!!!! Have seen article for codes but me English not so good. What is DDL?

    PS: Checked spell checker. No help.

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  • Bob Hovious (5/6/2009)


    ...and GSquared is invisible ???

    Yeah. Haven't you noticed?

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  • You really are a ninja, Gus!

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  • Florian Reischl (5/6/2009)


    :sick:

    CREATE SCHEMA [%]

    GO

    CREATE TABLE [%].[%] (Id INT IDENTITY PRIMARY KEY, i INT, [-] INT, [AND] INT, [*] INT, [%] VARCHAR(10))

    CREATE INDEX [master.sys.objects] ON [%].[%] ([-]) INCLUDE ([*])

    INSERT INTO [%].[%] SELECT 1, 2, 3, 4, 'blah'

    SELECT i + [-] * [AND] % [*] [%]

    FROM [%].[%]

    WHERE [%].[%].[%] = 'blah'

    Meh.

    CREATE TABLE [['.[] (

    [,] int,

    [[.] int,

    [['.[.'] int,

    [ FROM [['.[] varchar(4)

    )

    SELECT [.].[['.[.'], [.].[,],[.].[[.], [.].[['.[.']

    , [.].[ FROM [['.[] [.], [.].[ FROM [['.[] FROM [['.[] [.],

    [['.[] [ WHERE [['.[.[['.[.'=''] WHERE [ WHERE [['.[.[['.[.'=''].

    [['.[.']=''

    Edit: Looks like it confused the forum's syntax highlighting.

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  • Bruce W Cassidy (5/6/2009)


    [font="Verdana"]Does anyone remember a language called Algol? I believe that in the original form, it had no concept of "reserved words", so it was perfectly valid to write expressions like:

    if if then then else else

    Of course, you could really confuse matters with:

    if else then if else then

    ... Or was that PL/1?

    Bring back PROLOG, I say!

    [/font]

    I taught myself Algol when the teachers went on strike while I was in high school back in '76. I don't remember it not having the concept of reserved words. I remember you had different routines to print numerics and text. I found it to be an interesting language, and preferred it to Fortran. It also made learning Pascal, Modula-2, and Ada much easier.

    I'd love it if someone came out with PROLOG.NET. I had the Borland Turbo Prolog and found it a fun language to play with as well.

  • Jan Van der Eecken (5/6/2009)


    What is DDL?

    [font="Verdana"]It's a spray that you apply liberally to rid yourself of unwanted pests. :w00t:[/font]

  • Bruce W Cassidy (5/6/2009)


    Jan Van der Eecken (5/6/2009)


    What is DDL?

    [font="Verdana"]It's a spray that you apply liberally to rid yourself of unwanted pests. :w00t:[/font]

    If you want a weird programming language, look at Whitespace.



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