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Thought For The Day
And God promised men that good and obedient wives would be found in all corners of the world.
Then he made the earth round...and laughed and laughed and laughed.
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There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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You're an evil man, Mike.
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Evil, Wicked, Mean and Nasty[^]
Came to mind immediately
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There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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It did not fool us for long, then. I always wondered, what motivated Eratosthenes[^] to calculate the planet's circumference. He certainly did not believe he was sitting on some flat tile or disc.
Anyway, this sounds more like the way the devil traditionally keeps his promises.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
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CDP1802 wrote: what motivated Eratosthenes[^] to calculate the planet's circumference
To find out how far he had to go to get away. 
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There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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So now we have three candidates who may have played that little joke on us. God, the devil or perhaps Charles Darwin (standing for evolution, of course).
Evolutional algorithms have a tendency to fulfill their directives to the letter, but not to the way they were intended. My prime suspect is evolution.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
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TFTD means Terror From the Deep to me (follow up from the X-COM game UFO Enemy Unknown)!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Someone is trying to learn C in advance of his course which starts in the new year.
Good idea, possibly.
So...he has downloaded a copy of TurboC 4...and it's not working quite as he expects...
That's what? 20 years old? 
I'm amazed it runs on a modern OS! 
That has to be a record: unless you know someone who found a copy of QuickC for DOS and got it to install under Win7?
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Well, at least he tried... And in case you're planning to help him: awww yisss, history goodness![^] 
My blog[ ^]
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I just Googled QuickC for DOS - I used to love that program - and found it on an abandonware site!
I can't believe MS have given it away, but if they have...gawd but I'm tempted!
Got any 5.25" floppies? And a floppy drive?
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Virtual Floppy Drive...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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OriginalGriff wrote: I just Googled QuickC for DOS - I used to love that program - and found it on an abandonware site!
... Aaaaaand, it Does work in DosBox!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Damn it!
Now I've spent the whole morning trying to get it working!
It works, but for some reasons DosBox insists that the BIN folder is the C:\ root drive, so it can't find the "Includes" folder...grrrr....back to the fight...I'll beat this, I will...
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Yes!
It works!
"Hello World", The QuickC version lives!
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OriginalGriff wrote: So...he has downloaded a copy of TurboC 4
From the Smithsonian?
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I had to install a copy of VC 6 (or something like that) a couple years ago. On a then modern machine, the compiler was so screaming fast it seemed to compile the C++ code before I even it the build button.
I think we've lost something, tools that now require horsepower, disk space and memory that would cripple a system 10+ years ago.
Marc
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We have lost a lot in "raw power" - but by heck we have gained a lot in development support! Intellisense alone is worth a huge amount of compiler slowdown, and then there is "on the fly" compilation allowing us to change code while debugging.
I am happy losing compilation speed to gain those two things alone!
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Isn't that a 16-bit program? How could he get it to run on a modern OS?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I loved QuickC for DOS. I used it as my source editor for a long time, even though I was using Watcom C/386 and Microsoft C 7.0 for my tool chain. It was quick (pardon the pun), loading in under a second. It supported editing two files at once (unbelievable convenience), and I could even program the hot keys to whatever I liked.
Software Zen: delete this;
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You want to try it in DosBox on a modern PC! Good grief but it's quick!
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Sadly, Turbo C++ was what was used for C++ in the college I graduated from in 2004. I got in touch with a younger student there several years later (at least 3 or 4 years back from present) and they were still using that.
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread 
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Given that Visual studio has (very cheap) student editions and (free) Express editions, that says a heck of a lot about the college and the likely quality of it's tutors... 
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I would bet real money they're still using TC++. I'll be visiting my hometown in a week... might just pop over and find out for myself 
In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if most of the other colleges were using it too 
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread
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Scare 'em. Take a lappie with VS Express loaded and show teh students what they will really be working with...
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But, but, but, VS doesn't have TurboVision!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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