@hybotics My worst BASIC experience was a binary tree filing system written in Microsoft Professional Basic by an engineer.
It's a standard sort of thing that sane languages handle with recursion.
To anyone who has coded them before..
Imagine it being done, with ANSI standard BASIC. Line numbers. GOTOs. GOSUBs. And the whole thing being done by someone who was an engineer/physicist by trade.
It made my head throb.
// @matigo
@hybotics Being confined to other people's code is about the closest thing to Hell you can experience.
// @matigo
@larand I've been in a mood all morning. I think everyone here realizes it too. Wide berth. Even the CEO. Have a very complicated and time consuming remote configuration coming up soon that will likely keep me after hours. I'm trying to improve my mood by doing nothing in particular until that phone call comes in.
@phoneboy This reminds me. I have a Seiko and a Mondaine with broken bands and dead batteries I need to do something about.
// @thrrgilag @larand
@matigo Yeah. That company's local tech person called yesterday to confirm that a new power supply was in place.
"She told me about the switch. Can you believe she did that?!"…"Yes".
That tech and I have many conversations that go this way. She's damned good at what she does too. I was she were closer. I'd contract her out in an instant.
// @hybotics
@larand They should never have that label because people like me look at it and say, "Oh yeah?", then lose weeks of our lives.
// @phoneboy @japchap @hybotics
@phoneboy It puts me in mind of the dashboard to my grandfather's first car. He kept in in his workshop. It was a large switch and an ampere meter. That's it (1929 Ford)
// @japchap @hybotics
@phoneboy I'm sure they'll get there eventually. In the meantime, when the BMW dies, I'm replacing it with an older Mercedes diesel. Something I can work on without needing a degree in astrophysics.
// @japchap @hybotics
@matigo …That Access application. Dear God. It had to be repaired constantly. There was a line of icons in a folder. All to the application. With a date and (Don't Use Anymore). There was one, current, good one.
"WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?"
This is what she (the gal that wrote it) said to do.
I sat down at my new desk, fired up my new computer and broke the champagne bottle on Visual Studio by writing it's replacement.
Then the Linux stuff happened, 16 years passed and now I am a grumpy old guy chatting on the Internet instead of working.
// @hybotics