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As I don't use Basic at all, I don't have any skin in this game. However IMO design by committee (or voting) is not good. Look no further than what happened to Fortran from v77 to v90 (and some of...

Definitely a hole.

Re Avengers Movies. My 2 favourites are Dr Strange and Captain Marvel. Followed by Thor trilogy and then the Ant-man double.

I like the Bond movies - but I wouldn't rate them as top movies - just...

I'd forgotten about that one. I agree, a re-watch is definitely in order.

What - no Michael Caine films?

Ipcress File
Funeral In Berlin
The Italian Job
Too Late The Hero
Get Carter
The Black Windmill
The Man Who Would Be King
The Eagle Has Landed

I agree - they'd be next on my list. Together with Star Wars IV, V, VI (original 3).

War Games (first)
Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle / The Next Level
Where Eagles Dare
Kelly's Heroes
Space Cowboys
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone et al
de Vinci Code / Angels & Demons...

Aren't they stored at the user level? What happens if you have multiple users with different credentials and switch between them?

I threw away my VHS tapes years ago when I replaced them with the DVD versions...

Yes - but checking my DVD version (bought 2002) they're not there any more!.

Sign on my wall

"You don't have to be crazy to work here - but if you are it helps"

That reminds me scenes from 'Dr Who - Fury From The Deep'.

As someone who previously has been involved with OS and compiler development, I absolutely agree with this. Time spent on the design is time well spent and will almost certainly be recouped during...

but doesn't this assume that the expressions (Value < 0) and (Value <> 0) produces values of -1 if true? This is not true for many programming languages.

I know that VB returns -1, but this isn't...

If the poster is the code owner, then OK. If the poster isn't the code owner then permission from the code owner is required - otherwise you're in breach. If you are employed by a company, your...

Apparently they dropped it because of 'lack of interest'. See:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/apache-cordova-development-lands-on-visual-studio-code/...

I'm not sure as I don't use it, but VS Code (as distinct to VS Studio) may still support Cordova. There's Internet info available about this.

The Basic working group is WG8 under SC22 (C is WG14, C++ is WG21). Apparently, it is no longer active. See http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/

If anyone wants to pursue Basic standardisation, then...

Yes - it needs to be done via your National Member. See https://isoupdate.com/resources/6-steps-to-creating-an-iso-standard/


Hold the front page! Stop the Presses!!

There is an ANSI/ISO Basic...

Isn't part of the problem is that there is no 'standard' for the Basic language? C/C++ are ISO standard(s), Fortran has it's standard. But what's Basic? I could 'invent' a new language and call it...

There's the serious devotee - posting on Christmas Day!

@Steve and all - Happy holiday and a safe New Year.

I learnt programming at school when about 13 using HP Time-Shared-Basic (TSB). It used line numbers and gotos! You had a max of 286 numeric variables and 26 string variables which had to dim'ed...

Re assembly. I first learnt PDP 11, then 6502 and z80. I then had to learn Intel when I started to program MS-DOS using MASM/TASM. Later I programmed in 68000/68020 for a VME based minicomputer I was...

When I learnt programming aeons ago, all we had to go on were our lecture notes, computer manuals and any books you'd bought. There was no on-line. No forums, no chat rooms, no search, no examples....

This is a false positive. It's annoying. We have some internal written c++ code that similarly triggers virus warnings. As our code is only for internal use we just tell the virus scanner to treat...

I have VS2022 Community running Ok for c/c++ under Windows 7 Pro.

Yes. When I did my CS degree eons ago we studied PDP-11 and Z80 assembler. I also learnt 6502 assembler for my Acorn Atom. IMO it certainly helps understanding. The PDP-11 was connected to 16...

Well that was a light-hearted way to start the day by reading all the posts in this thread. Keep it up! I look forward to reading round 2 tomorrow.

My preferred ssd drives are from Crucial. They also offer a compatibility checker. Just enter make/model and it'll show all compatible drives.
https://www.crucial.com/store/advisor

Yes - several times for friends. I just used Windows Backup and Restore program and generated a system image to an external USB drive. Changed the disks. Then used Windows System Repair Disk to...

For VS, have a look at Properties/c++/Code Generation/Enable Enhanced Instruction Set. This allows usage of SSE(2) and AVX(2) instructions if the CPU supports them.

1 is of type int. So is 2. In C an int divided by an int gives an int. So 1 / 2 gives 0. But 1.0 / 2 gives 0.5 as 1.0 is of type double rather than int.

For / if either the dividend or the divisor...

You say she needs a new laptop. Does that mean she already has one but that isn't suitable or she hasn't one at all and needs a laptop?

If she needs a laptop for what you describe, have you...

Looks like VS subscriptions are different to the old MSDN subscriptions and don't include the SDK disks anymore. Ah for the good old days of MSDN and Technet discs!

I don't know about now, but several years ago I had a MSDN subscription for years. Part of the CD's/DVD's that came with this subscription were those that contained the complete SDK documentation -...

Isn't it only the ability to download as .pdf that's being retired? the web contents will still be there.

In c/c++:



(exp & 1)


will evaluate to a type depending upon the type of exp (eg int if type of exp is int) with a value of either 1 or 0 depending upon the LSB. If this is then used when a...

Has this been reported to MS?

MS VS 2022 has now been released (not preview). See https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/launch/

Also don't use CreateThread(). Use _beginthreadex()
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-runtime-library/reference/beginthread-beginthreadex?view=msvc-170