Re: Optimization of code

From:

"David Ching" <dc@remove-this.dcsoft.com>

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microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:27:15 -0700

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Already then. I don't recall which thread mentioned Pascal other than the
InnoSetup using a derivative of it for the script language. Why can't they
make an installer that uses C?

I've never heard Pascal was unmaintainable; indeed many people at the time
thought it was an excellent general purpose application language and decried
the move to C, which comparatively was unmaintainable. But C allowed many
shortcuts that programmers like me found too productive to ignore. I could
type in the C code as fast as I could think it, not so with Pascal.

-- David

"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@flounder.com> wrote in message
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That was a Slip Of The Mouse. I was looking at one message in the window,
but the mouse
had selected another in the message header window, so my reply went to the
wrong thread.
joe

On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:02:20 -0700, "David Ching"
<dc@remove-this.dcsoft.com> wrote:

I'm not seeing what Pascal has to do with whether you can rename a control
variable in C#!

-- David

"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@flounder.com> wrote in message
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I saw that; I hope I never have to actually look at the source, because
I
suffer from a
condition called "Pascalepsy", which is characterized by falling to the
floor and foaming
at the mouth at the sight of Pascal code (I once maintained 11,000 lines
of some of the
worst-written Pascal code anyone had ever constructed; I slowly rewrote
it
into something
that was maintainable. For example, any Pascal code that uses 'with' is
unreadable and
unmaintainable; my first stage of rewriting was to remove, one at a
time,
every 'with'
clause I came across doing maintenance, then one weekend I killed them
ALL). When you
combined the defects of the programmer with the defects of the langauge,
the result was
over a year of pain.
joe

On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 19:50:05 -0700, "David Ching"
<dc@remove-this.dcsoft.com> wrote:

"r norman" <r_s_norman@comcast.net> wrote in message
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Naming a control in dotNet with an informative name is easily done at
the time of creation in the design phase -- when you first drag it
onto the dialog screen. From then on, you have no problems. If you
use the default names first in various places in the code and later
change the name, you do have problems. I find that behavior
acceptable.

Really? I never found that behavior; I would just right click on the
variable in the C# code and select Rename, and it would change the name
of
both the variable in my source code and also in the form (since the form
is
defined in a code-behind C# file and it's just as easy to change code in
that as in the file containing my code).

Perhaps this was offered by the Resharper or Visual Assist plug-in, but
I
really think it is natively there in VS2008 also.

-- David

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