Hi!

[Louis Dias]

...hmmm...

Cute girl says "Hi" and all the C coders go ga ga...

[Louis Dias]

Well, though you may have V.D., I don't.  That being said, I'm a VB.Net programmer and we go out with girls like this:

www.geocities.com/lou_dias

[Louis Dias]

mel_zoom wrote:
Oh dear!

The language wars. Do people still argue over that one?

I thought it was common knowledge that C and C++ were the only languages for serious (non-web) development. I cant really understand why companies would use an entry-level language like Basic to develop real software.

Ever see the footage for Mortal Kombat: Armourgeddon  for the Wii?  The special moves are easily pulled off by simple gestures instead of complicated stick movement and buttons press combinations.  This means matches will be decided by how and when you use the moves (i.e. talent) and not who has sat there and drudged through the repetive and boring tutorials to master 1 mundane special move that is easily countered with another.

It's also like saying that the guy that invented the automobile is the world's greatest driver.  Not the case at all.

Higher-level tools let creativity and design come first.

The same applies to programming.  C# is C syntax yet it is 100% functionally equivalent to Visual Basic, which is an object oriented language.  With today's system specs, C is no longer ideal.  C# is there to bring common ground on a common platform for you relics.

You can all sit there and make your jokes, but this thread continues to proved it, C(++) programmers are dork programmers.

@dorks
I dumped her and she's since gained ALOT of weight.  Let the insults that expose your jealousy .. resume.

[Louis Dias]

koaftder wrote:

C/C++ is the stuff that your beloved VB.NET and MSIL translators were written in.

Hence the automobile designer analogy as a driver.  In the end, driving the car is what makes it useful.  Making a car more complex to operate achieves what? - Poor sales?

Also, if one cars is difficult to operate and another is simple, the driver of the latter can spend more time focussing on the road, which is what is really important here, not who is driving the more needlessly complex car.

[Louis Dias]

mel_zoom wrote:
lou_dias:

Why would I be jealous? :-P

I was referring to the guys who have to wipe something of there screens when you resond to the directly...

Rather than just use it for retrogaming I am thinking of setting up my amiga and using it to learn a programming language. There is no reason why I cant use my PC for this or even the mac when it arrives but I thought it would be fun and perhaps even productive way to get back into using the amiga.

Girl-gamers are nothing new, even good-looking ones.  I keep coming to this site to satisfy some retro-curiosity with *some* hope of an Amiga "future" as well.

So does this make me a "dork" too?

See above, it's mostly a generallization but directed at the other posters in this thread.

Does your impression of C like languages come from the position of being proficient in them but not liking them or simply from not grasping them as readily as VB?

I've taken C and C++ academically.  Got an A and a B respectively.  I had an A in C++ all semester long but in the final project, I made it SO object-oriented and used every feature of the language just to prove I could (like a dork) and then the damn thing just crashed at the same point for no apparent reason.  I ran it on an Amige C++ compiler and on Visual Studio 6 (at the time).  I re-checked everything atleast 20 times over in the course of 2 weeks.  I could not get the final project to work right because the language was the barrier.  It leads to cryptic code, the reference of a reference of a reference of a pointer.  BLAH!  It's garbage.

In VB, you code it, it works.  If it doesn't you know why in about 10 seconds.  The job gets done.  Everybody's happy.

[Louis Dias]

mel_zoom wrote:
lou_dias:

PS was there any reason you felt the need to point out how your old girlfriend has put on weight since you "dumped" her?

That was quite a unnecessary and chauvinist remark to make considering it had nothing to do with the disucssion.

You haven't been a member here long enough to know it's ugly side.  About how your words will be picked apart, twisted and called lies without proof to back them up.  Actually, you are just starting to yourself.  It's a disease here you know.

Today you call it chauvinist.  Tomorrow you will see it as me crossing my T's and dotting my I's.

Also, you take every post as directed at you when it was a response to CannonFodder's response to my original post.

[Louis Dias]

Krusty wrote:
of course that idiots girlfriend has put on weight. she had the sense to dump the crazy fool and go out for meals with other blokes. he just cant take the rejection and is lashing out at people here. wot a moron

 :destroy:

Let me quote myself:

@dorks
I dumped her and she's since gained ALOT of weight. Let the insults that expose your jealousy .. resume.

[Louis Dias]

To my coding critics:

Yes, be proud, you are all bigger rocket scientists than me.

I wish I still had the code to submit to you rocket scientists that even my friend with the Master's degree in CIS couldn't figure out.

Yes, you are all much more clever than I, please continue to tell me what incredible rocket scientists you are.

2 years of self-taught C64 Basic followed by 6502/8502 assembly before I was 13 as well as the following 9 years of schooling and 9 years of real world experience and I'm a real noob.  I bow down to your levels of rocket scientistology (yes, I know it's not a word).

[Ctrl-h]rocket scientist[Tab]dork[Alt-r]

[Louis Dias]

adz wrote:
Why is it that whenever lou_dias posts I feel like stabbing myself in the neck with a screwdriver, I'd much rather hear from Mr. Hans George Cambell, hell I'd even prefer to hear from leirbag28 :roll:

Instead of waiting for them to post, couldn't you just stab yourself in the neck with a screwdriver?
:-P


@Karlos,

I've learned alot of sythatically DIFFERENT languages:
Basic (C64/PICK/Visual), Pascal, Lisp/Scheme, C, C++, Fortran, Visual FoxPro, 8088 assembly, 6502/8502 assembly, Ada, PHP and I have come to the conclusion that as far as high-level languages go - C/C#/C++/PHP/JAVA and the like are fugly.  All assembly is fuglier, but those are not high-level languages.

Though JAVA and C# fixes alot of the "tacked-on" feel of C++.

[Louis Dias]

yetihw wrote:
sorry don't believe you, its all geeks and nerds here no doubt.  But its a nice joke i guess

I'm not sure what you don't believe, however, they can clearly be identified by the ones who took it to heart and felt the need to return comment.

Would you like me to email you more pictures of us together over the course of 3 years?  It's funny, the people who feel insulted don't feel a need to disprove the insult, only belittle me, right after I disproved the first insult thrown at me...

If they were secure with themselves, they wouldn't be insulted to begin with.  Oh well...that's life.  Deal with it.

[Louis Dias]

Allow me to quote myself yet again...

lou_dias wrote:

[insert exponentionally childish comeback]

Let me quote myself:

@dorks
Let the insults that expose your jealousy .. resume.

It's quite obvious that you all have neglected your social lives in your quest for the title of "hard-core dork" as your ramblings continue to degenerate into how I would have responded if I was in highscool.

Keep it up, you continue to prove my point.  As I said to Mel, words would be twisted and they have been.  Congratulate yourselves for showing her what I said she would see.  You have brought her to the dark side of this forum.  It's only her first day and she has so much more of this to look forward to...

[Louis Dias]

CannonFodder wrote:

WTF would someone even keep lots of photographs of their ex-girlfriend even?

LOL, I guess you'd have to first have a girlfriend in order to know why.

Hey, my grandmother is dead, maybe I should just burn all of the pictures I have of her.  What good are they now, afterall?

[Louis Dias]

koaftder wrote:
Cmon lou, you know you get off faster responding to these posts than you did with that call girl who posed with you in that blury picture on your geocities page.

LOL, you don't give up.  It's blurry because it was scanned from a Polaroid.  I haven't updated the site in about 4 years and then only to edit "girlfriend" to "ex-girlfriend"

I guess you don't know what it's like to get all dressed up with your woman and friends and rent a limo and have a night out in the big city (Boston, that time).

If I post more pictures of her, you dorks label me weird for having them to begin with yet it's you who don't know the meaning of a well-rounded life.  I'll tell you a secret, I have atleast 1 picture of all my ex's.  I'm sure there are social deviants among you who can't fathom the possibility of multiple ex's hence the disbelief in this one to begin with.

Your childish remarks will resume, but making them is only waving your own "willy", as you put it earlier.  However, internet warriors have no consequence in my life.

You are at war with yourselves on who can make the most "clever" remark.  It's pathetic and only re-affirms my original statements.

...do continue...

[Louis Dias]

koaftder wrote:

A well rounded life doesn't revolve around pimping VB as the holy grail of software development on amiga.org. A well rounded life doesn't revolve around posting a picture of your ex as proof to what kind of tail a VB programmer can net. A well rounded life doesn't revolve around informing people on amiga.org that you broke up with some woman and she got mad fat afterwards. A well rounded life doesn't revolve around offering proof to random strangers that you infact did have a relationship with a woman by emailing jpgs of your personal life.

Does it involve taking all generalizations to heart?
Does it involve putting words in people's mouths?
Calling them gay when they don't share the same opinion?
Continuously trying to belittle someone with personal attacks?

If you had a life, you wouldn't be so uptight about sharing it.  I have nothing to hide about my life.  It's quite normal.  Your unhappiness in yours is what makes you hide it and belittle mine to feel better about yours.  You expose yourself with every post in that manner.  It is inconcievable to you the statements I have expressed about mine.  I understand you, however, the level of childiness in your earlier remarks denies you any of my pity.

[Louis Dias]

Right, I'm the weirdo...

but I'll throw you a bone:
http://www.fiero.nl/forum/Forum6/HTML/036133-59.html