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I get a little quarky now and then.
By the way, thanks for your help on the expression evaluators. RPN was exactly what I needed.
In retrospect, I was trying to overcomplicate something, but it was because I was ignorant on the subject.
That RPN stuff is cool to work with!
Back in the day we used this stuff in commercial products - didn't have SQL to rely on. Had to make our own database!
Foul language. Banned!Quote:
Nevermind the bollocks
Egad! :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by FunkyDexter
Its a facist regime;)
Back in my day we hand built our databases from baling wire, string and lint.
P.S. Those are not acronyms.
What flavor is Juicy Fruit Gum?
Is the gum for when the baling wire, string and lint doesn't work?
I use JsonLint all the time
http://jsonlint.com/
I'd guess at a vanilla/banana/crack-cocaine flavor.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gruff
Hah!
Re: old database
You could use chicken coop wire in a pinch.
The hole size was perfect for filtering out unwanted data.
You can see where ACCESS came from ;)
szlamany, how would you write your own database using RPN in theory?
The work you did so far was all about literals in the equations - getting run through your execute code so a final product could be arrived at.
You just need to support other then a literal - a reference to a field name would work. Then when you run your execute code and you come across a non-literal item, your code finds that value with whatever method works (like getting that field from a row in a dataset).
I posted a link back in that other thread to the set of "operators" and such that we supported back in my DEC PDP and VAX days. Some of the functions talked to our "data layer".
Here's a screen shot of a VAX utility for defining a database record. Code I wrote back in the 1980's. Still have some customers with VAX's that run. I'll post a series of screen shots to show you...
Here I am in that utility changing field #1
This is another field from another table - an ACCT table.
Note the VALID-IF entry - our DB allowed validation like this...
And here is an equation field - not bad for a 1980's homegrown database, right?
That's an IF statement in the equation with a THEN and ELSE doing SUBTRACTION of one of two pairs of fields.
Check this one out - this is a SUB TYPE field - length of 1 - and it's VERIFY'd by the ST sub-table in the FASTBL TABLE.
That's fargin' referential integrity - I had never seen SQL back when I wrote this database!
This is all way too serious.
Ah yah. If only there were a forum with appropriate areas where one could discuss such things. :)
Post Race!
From what I read, parskie :duck: had a ton of serious code talk on the post race.
Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.
Finding a VAX I could connect to and still remember the password - amazed the heck out of me.
And it was a crazy trip down memory lane as well!
Plus I got no traction on my "6 states of a quark" back a page - I'm thinking Dylan lyrics might die the same death.
Pistols shots ring out in the barroom night...
As a comment on social change it was and is still relevant, but it applies to any sort of sweeping change.
The computer revolution as well.
On second thought I know many managers that are computer illiterate but continue to pull down the big bucks. They do not appear to be sinking like a stone. :)
So your taking Shaggy up on that "too serious" offer. He'll be punning back, I'm sure...Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
This is what I'm working on today - it's part of a vendor bidding system. Will allow anyone who is willing to put in an email account access to PDF's and downloads for municipal bids.
Just finished this login popup and now working on the HTML that shows the files for download. A bit different from that dumb terminal green screen app from the 1990's.
I'm off at a developers conference where I'm sitting in the last day of talks and running a pretty high fever. Basically, I'm not really here, no matter what here you think I am referring to.
Now that sounds serious - hope you feel better. At least next week is just 2 and a half days!!
Let's all sing The Lard Song!Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqvjNRhlrnw
Nothing new in a whole day!
nuances abound.
So for those of you who do not know...
I've been having some pretty bad back pain.
I was upset because my MRI came back that my neck had some bulging and some disk were herniated, but nothing really that bad that could be causing me as much pain as I was in.
Well, that specialist kind of threw a hail mary and sent me to another back doctor.
From the same test, the doctor concluded that my joints are degenerating.
With everything together, that's what's been hurting me.
So bad news that it'll only get continually worse until ultimately I have to have surgery.
But great news that I finally know what it is!!!
I'm still not on any narcotics(which I'm A-OK with!), but they prescribed me an osteoporosis medicine.
Hurray! I've been diagnosed!!!
Aren't you 20?
23! -short message-
I don't mean to make fun of your situation (okay, maybe I do) but this reminds me of an episode of Seinfeld...Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFqOSa7u0dA
I was going to say, "big deal, now a doctor has told you that your joints are degenerating, when it's happening to all of us.", but you're too young for that. That kind of sucks. I wrecked my joints at that age the old fashioned way: Sports injuries, from which I never fully recovered.
Look on the bright side, though: If you get a walker, you can come join me yelling at the kids to get off my lawn. You're waaaay to young to be doing so otherwise.
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Since this is the post race, I want to point out that you used back-to-back posts writing about back-to-back visits going back to back doctors. There's no backing out of it now. It sounds like you followed the osteo path back to the back-teria (the cafeteria for backs) for a real bachanal.
@Homer, you're page gives a This Page Cannot Be Displayed
Hey.
Sorry about your bones. want some of mine
dclamp! Where'd you geaux?
The post race has been clampless without your presence
De clamp, de clampQuote:
Originally Posted by dday9
said in the voice of Hervé Villechaize
...I guess it's really a c-clamp anyway - having a hard time find a d-clamp...