Path: ...!s1-1.netnews.com!news-out.netnews.com!postmaster.netnews.com!us13.netnews.com!not-for-mail X-Trace: DXC=^9H\VJ1\go9T[HoeIC=dQ?HWonT5<]0T=djI?Uho:Xe;lL51CP6LDL:kCV2OT>gi^X=X_1CGm4YP8f00: X-Complaints-To: support@blocknews.net Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2024 16:30:28 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Betterbird (Windows) Subject: Re: More Funny Stuff From Joel Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy References: <2ej96j1mbvgiok4q5c57vdlo94itpfu5dt@4ax.com> <6664e989$0$2363151$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <666522c8$1$3747325$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <34rb6j1h6sittv7fj19ur2bcji7pjrus1c@4ax.com> Content-Language: en-US From: DFS In-Reply-To: <34rb6j1h6sittv7fj19ur2bcji7pjrus1c@4ax.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 73 Message-ID: <666610e0$0$2422127$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 X-Trace: 1717965024 reader.netnews.com 2422127 127.0.0.1:57291 Bytes: 3857 On 6/9/2024 1:56 PM, Joel wrote: > rbowman wrote: > >>>> Not buying it, pal. I don't believe you can still write C code to >>>> accomplish those things. You're way rusty! >>> >>> It would come back to me in mere moments. >> >> You're better than most programmers I know then. After being away from a >> language for a while it's usually 'Duh, how do I start?' The worst case is >> you've been using a somewhat similar language in the meantime. > > > I majored in comp sci, I have used a number of languages, even > multiple platforms of assembly, just not in a long time. I've done > amazing things with mIRC script's language. It's not a hard thing for > me to pick up the process of coding, it *is* hard to think of an > original idea for something to code, though. You just need to decide what interests you that a computer program would help you accomplish. https://www.reddit.com/r/mIRC/comments/vril37/what_are_some_useful_mirc_scripts_in_2022/ https://www.dataquest.io/blog/python-projects-for-beginners/ https://projecteuler.net/ https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code One of the very first python programs I wrote - a little over 8 years ago! - was to connect a pyodbc driver to an Access database and summarize the db file. 2,099,101 rows 114 tables (max row = 600288) 971 columns text: 503 boolean: 4 numeric: 351 date-time: 108 binary: 5 309 indexes (25 foreign keys) 333,549,568 bytes on disk Time: 0.19 seconds Later, abusing cola 'advocates' by tossing their idiocy back in their faces spurred me to use python to download Usenet posts and put them into a relational database, from which I can extract drooling such as this from Feeb in Oct 2017: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beginning/top of post "When you say standardization, you of course mean a standardized GUI toolkit, and that is what Microshit has and that is what, admittedly makes Microshit a better choice than GNU/Linux." End of same post: ".. the GUI interface, and especially a STANDARD GUI, severely limits the capabilities of any computing machine. That is why GNU/Linux. with its non-standardized assortments of toolkits and libraries is the superior choice." -------------------------------------------------------------------------