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<O`<Q]eOlLm;2_29oXJ1iY<LQ^D7JJN181ankHQ>: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: <ej496jd0tb59u2l0nqtghq3u9ahhmann3s@4ax.com>
 <lcjnnuF896hU5@mid.individual.net>
 <kma96j1no1tp926ctejldkdk2c19aeruft@4ax.com>
 <lcjvk1F9n7aU1@mid.individual.net>
 <2ej96j1mbvgiok4q5c57vdlo94itpfu5dt@4ax.com>
 <6664e989$0$2363151$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>
 <v0r96jtsvodcnn4sk91ug1ulh2h76jgbvm@4ax.com>
 <666522c8$1$3747325$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>
 <hdpa6j5uns00bbcn76nsf8pugj4pdlu0tr@4ax.com>
 <lcm7j9Fk632U1@mid.individual.net>
 <34rb6j1h6sittv7fj19ur2bcji7pjrus1c@4ax.com>
Content-Language: en-US
From: DFS <nospam@dfs.com>
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 <bowman@montana.com> 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."

<ddb53c30-8078-49b5-9462-e602ae6f4f76@googlegroups.com>
-------------------------------------------------------------------------