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MikeTheFid wrote: (I worked for I've Been Moved from 1979-1987)
So maybe you can confirm (or deny) what I've been told: An icon used in the 360 series marketing was a full circle, with one vertical radius drawn, like in a tradional "on/off" toggle button. Then I have heard said that the icon chosen for the 370 series was a bigger circle 
People telling this story illustrate the new icon: A double circle, not consentric but touching where the radius crosses the rim. I can't remember ever seing this symbol in officiall IBM documentation, but maybe it was before I got into computing. (And, my only experience with IBM mainframes is for a single student project, on a remote machine I never saw.)
Maybe this was an internal joke within IBM. Or maybe outside IBM. As we say where I live: If it isn't the truth, it sure is a great lie! ... I think it is so great that I sort of wish that it is true
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IBM System/360 retrospective
Near the bottom...
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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I was reading IBM 360 software documentation in the 1960s. (There were multiple operating systems for the 360 series because OS360 was nowhere near being released.) The logo on the documents I read was the face of a simple compass.
The paper these documents were printed on was lighter than newsprint.
I never did get my Fortran program to work ...
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"You can always tell an APL programmer, but not much."
User: Technical term used by developers. See Idiot.
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You are correct, Smalltalk images do work similarly, but there is a risk implied, as discussed by Gilad Bracha in Room 101...
Room 101: An Image Problem
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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var array = new[] { item };
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Quite. ToArray and ToList are code smells. As are pretty must all Toxxx methods. (ToString can be OK, but it's often misused as well.)
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Convert.ToString is preferred ofcourse; As .ToString can be called on a null-object, causing an exception, where Convert.ToString would return an empty string without throwing an exception.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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If the only code being consumed is your code then I agree completely but ToArray can be useful when dealing with an external library that doesn't accept List<T>. Forcing your own code to use a plain array simply to avoid a ToArray call could be much, much worse depending on how your code uses that array.
I'd lob them in with what you said about ToString. It can be useful but is often misused.
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could be worse ...
string[] oldarray = { "A", "B", "C" };
string newitem = "D";
oldarray = (String.Join(",", oldarray) + "," + newitem).Split(',');
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Consult your mental health professional immediately! 
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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I think a better subject would be:
How to create an array with a single item
I thought this was going to be some sort of array concatenation/insertion N^3 algorithm.
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Exactly. Something that actually answers the original question - like this:
int[] existingArray = { 1, 12, 123, 1234 };
existingArray = existingArray.Concat(new[] { 12345 }).ToArray();
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Adding a single item to an array causes the entire array to be reallocated and copied. Simply put, the only array that can add an item is a linked list. Some of the suggested solutions use a different datatype List<> to create a copy of the original array, use its built in function ".Add" to insert an item, then creating a brand new array containing all the items. If the array needs to change again, then a whole new copy will be created in memory. This is all okay because it works, but it's not ideal. Copying a large array over and over only to add a single item at the end repeatedly will consume more CPU cycles (electricity and time) than necessary.
Do what you have to to make it work, but then search for a better approach and adopt that when you find it.
The highest performance method would be to use a linked list. In C++, linked lists can be very fast & cheap, but there are also some implementations in C#. The List<> object is a very nice implementation of a linked list, but there is also a LinkedList<> object that is optimized for adding items anywhere within the object.
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Since you're mentioning C++, you should be aware that the implementation of std::vector is clever enough to reallocate only occasionally, making it almost as fast as std::list for the purpose of repeated adding of elements to the end. It's only the insertion of elements in the mid or at the front that always requires a reallocation.
Of course there are always people who still manage to mess it up anyway...
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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If you think that's bad you should seen how I've seen multiple items get added to an array which the pseudo code was pretty much
Create new array that's one item bigger than the old array
Copy everything from the old array into the new one
Add one item to the slightly larger array.(The new array is now full)
repeat the previous 3 lines until you're done adding however many items you need to add.
Yes, I've literally seen that done in C++ and damn is it inefficient. (Slow and fragments memory like crazy.)
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The solution is to avoid using arrays whenever possible, even if there is not immediate need to add items to the collection after it's been populated the first time. Even when I'm using results from the Fileinfo or DirectoryInfo objects, I store the results in a list instead of the array they return.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Encountered on r/compsci (since deleted)
Do you guys think I could fix my old Toshiba satellite from 2002 by gluing an even older Toshiba
satellite to the bottom?
Obviously I’d heat up the motherboards beforehand in a microwave to help the glue fuse the circuits.
Thoughts?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Why would he need glue? I'm sure he had some Duct Tape.
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That's the least of his problems: first he has to get his orbits right to retrieve the satellites.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I'm sure Laptops from 2002 were way too big to fit in a microwave.
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Rob Grainger wrote: gluing an even older Toshiba
satellite to the bottom?
sure if you want to spend a few hours in the emergency department with firefighters and nurses falling around laughing at your predicament...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Well, I guess it's better than cementing your head in a microwave[^] for a YouTube "prank".
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I laughed so hard the first time I saw that article. Thanks for reminding me 
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What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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