Posted by 5GJW [5thGenerationJW] on April 09, 1999 at 18:27:16 {qzNMJDwJ.2lo6QIt25t6ZX9D1q7/.6}:
In Reply to: ***EndOfSystem: Shutdown Command! posted by Skeptic on April 09, 1999 at 10:44:21:
Hi Skeptic,
>How did you like C? I think it is cool. My favorite language is C++, which is even cooler.
I don't know enough about programming to give an educated reply, I really am not much of a programmer. One observation about C++ that I have is that, by requiring libraries, 10 lines of code compiles to 50K, which seems excessive. I just brought home the Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 Enterprise edition, donated by Microsoft to engineering schools in the U.S. for school use only. As both an employee of the school and a student , it is my duty to load these programs on my computer, so that I can to gain some exposure to the latest versions of these programs(that's my story, and I'm sticking to it). Most of the code I write is either in Matlab or LabWindows, both of which are more like QuickBasic, or even GW Basic, than what I have seen of C++. I have also done some simple assembly code for Intel 8051's, and I will be writing a program this summer that will use LabView and a data acquisition card to control a 0-600V, 600A continuous, three-phase auto-transformer. I am teaching myself LabView, it is a graphical programming language that is ideal for these kinds of control applications, but it is a long way from C++. My hope is that the students who take over the lab when I finally escape will be able to figure out what I did, and be able to fix it if it breaks. We are having problems with our current software that controls the auto-transformers, the software has about 4K lines of code (LabWindows) without a single comment. The student who wrote it is long gone. I think that it will be easier to start over than to fix this mess, a lot of the problems are that I have no idea what the hardware settings are for his code, and a mistake could cause some major smoke to escape. Unlike destroying an IC with 15V instead of 5V, when I break something in this lab, I see it, hear it, and smell it. Sometimes it even includes fireballs and molten metal.
>SS, who really enjoys your quotes
Thanks, it's fun for me to see everyone signing off on their posts
5GJW, who finds the need for programmers to be so
great that he must continually tell people that he really is not much of a programmer. It is much more fun to break stuff in the lab.