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What! And send Berilia, Tubul, Great T'Phon, and Jerakeen to the Cat food factory? 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I had no clue what you were talking about, so I had to look it up. At least he didn't relegate Ganesha to that role!
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I built a system like this years ago for a company I worked for and it worked well within the business model. It basically cut massive amounts of coding out of "vertical" applications we were building for clients and allowed my employer and our clients to make rapid changes.
It was actually pretty neat, but it wasn't entirely cookie cutter. Just most of it was.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Many years ago I worked for a building society (I think that equates to a savings and loan in USA). They had a simple solution to development. The systems analysts would talk to the business managers and figure out what was necessary for the programmers. They then wrote a detailed and fairly logical specification of what each module should do. We (the humble coders) would then turn that into assembler code (or sometimes Cobol) and build and test (using punched card batch input). Very few projects were not delivered on time, but we knew nothing of Agile, Scrum etc. Any consultant looking at that today would probably tell us why we were doing it all wrong.
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But in that era, the people doing the coding were true professionals. And they knew what they were doing.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Well some of them. I worked with a few who really did not justify the money they were being paid.
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In the early 80s, all the computer mags (no online fora then!) went all frothy over a program known as TLO - for "The Last One". This took "natural language" and generated BASIC code (what else?!) and took it's name as "The last program anyone would need to write". Programs were generated in response to user selecting actions from limited menus, and they could view a graphic flowchart as part of this process. After TLO of course we had 4GLs, then CASE tools. So low-code all feels a very familiar story...
Wikipedia's entry[^] for The Last One begins, ironically, with "The Last One is a computer program released in 1981 by the British company D.J. "AI" Systems. Now obsolete, ..."
This extract[^] from Personal Computer World is lovely reading.
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Just read today's version of Chef Sharkey's (Insider News) perfectly risen souffle of technical tidbits: gosh, an amoeba-foraging algorithm solves the old travelling-salesman problem in linear time; and, who can forget the recent advances in protein folding using ai modelling running on gonzo hardware ?
I go from euphoric to gob-smacked to homicidal, and back, as I absorb the latest innovations at the same time I try to use another MS Preview of the WinForms UI in 5.0 that crashes on the simplest test.
But, then ... (drum-roll) ... I stumble over yet another triumph like this one: [^], and, after the goose-bumps go away, I slide into blissful numbness.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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yep you read something just absolutely awesome someone has done. And then you get to try to figure out some shumucks vba code from 15 years that your company doesn't want to give up because it works in that one excel sheet.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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Many of our amazingly practical breakthrough inventions are actually just mimicking nature. Velcro is a good example.
Real programmers use butterflies
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I think of my personality as an unreliable impersonation of nature 
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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honey the codewitch wrote: Velcro is a good example.
First time I saw Velcro I was hooked!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Is your idea of a perfect date yyyy/MM/dd?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Inherently sortable.
The only correct way!
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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Really, year post seem seemed a bit week; that March I can say.
- Balboos 2020.12.11
- Q.E.D.
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I like mine under a palm tree.
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mine would come off of a tree. Or perhaps when younger and dumber out of the swedish bikini team. 
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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For one of the best examples of how computer charts and graphics especially when animated can reveal data. Check out the following link. I know the message is grim but for a moment think about the technical aspects of how any chart can show multiple aspects from the same data. How it is more powerful than just tables of numbers.
They say a picture is worth a thousand works. A moving must be worth a million.
The programmer that did this just earned his years salary. Maybe several years.
https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/how-america-gave-up/index.html[^]
Now we can go back to the grim message.
So many years of programming I have forgotten more languages than I know.
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The data is not even correct. I looked at Georgia and it said there were no deaths until almost October.
I'm not sure I'm getting the point you are trying to make.
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If each line represents a county and every so many pixels high represents a number of deaths then it may appear zero. It is more a mater of scaling than incorrect data.
The point is how much data was presented to you in such a short time. Think about having to do this program. Think about even coming up with the idea in the first place.
If you do not get the point you have never spent hours on doing graphs and charts.
So many years of programming I have forgotten more languages than I know.
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michaelbarb wrote: every so many pixels high represents
Oh, I typed in Georgia where it says "Search for your state" and there it had a line that showed 0 until October.
michaelbarb wrote: how much data was presented to you in such a short time.
Ya, it's OK I guess. I have done lots with charts and this is just another one in the long list of charts.
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you know it shows deaths per 100,000, rounded (or possibly truncated) to an integer? See the blips in April & May.
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