The ones you love

[alkatran]

You've all met them: That one bug in the program that takes 5 (with an upper case F, for good reasons) hours to track down. And it turns out you missed an "a" somewhere.

Or maybe just the stupid stupid bugs that you write in without even realising in. (writing "For each A between 1 and 10" instead of For a = 1 to 10 comes to my mind, hehe)

I just though I'd share some of the wonderful things I've had to find before.

1: y\x -> int(y/x) (rounding is different )
2: oops, forgot to put "a=a+1" in that "do while a < 100" loop with no doevents in it, hehe..
3: No option explicit (WORST MISTAKE EVER)
4: Hum, maybe I should've put a + instead of a ^.

Go on... share.

[visualAd]

I've made some real royal cock ups in the past and will probably make many more in the future Here's a short list of just a few:

• Why can't I SSH to my computer after I have disabled networking via SSH?
• Why doesn't my DSL connect when the modem cable is unplugged?
• Why doesn't my C program written in VB compile?
• WHY THE HELL WON'T THIS WORK?
  

  'Public Function isWinNT() As Boolean
  '    Dim OSInfo As OSVERSIONINFO
  '    
  '    OSInfo.dwOSVersionInfoSize = Len(OSInfo)
  '    
  '    Call GetVersionEx(OSInfo)
  '    
  '    If OSInfo.dwPlatformId = VER_PLATFORM_WIN32_NT Then
  '        isWinNT = True
  '    Else
  '        isWinNT = False
  '    End If
  '    
  'End Function

• Why won't this computer with no hard disk boot up?
• I wonder what mv /* does when logged in as root?

[Electroman]

For C++:

if (i = 0)
{
    // Do stuff...
}

I think I was born to much to VB, I just can't handle this one it always gets me and is almost impossible for me to spot half the time.

[mendhak]

then{
this.readonly=true;
}

****ing "O" is supposed to be capitalized.

[Pc_Madness]

Originally posted by Electroman
For C++:

if (i = 0)
{
    // Do stuff...
}

I think I was born to much to VB, I just can't handle this one it always gets me and is almost impossible for me to spot half the time.

That one always screws me over in PHP as well.

[Shaggy Hiker]

New to .NET. Just this morning I discovered that you can set a property on a button that makes it act like an OK button.

Why in the world would you want to do that? If I wanted that F'in' functionality, I would write it myself

[visualAd]

Originally posted by Shaggy Hiker
New to .NET. Just this morning I discovered that you can set a property on a button that makes it act like an OK button.

Why in the world would you want to do that? If I wanted that F'in' functionality, I would write it myself

[SLH]

In C/C++

int a[5];
a[5] = 7;

x=5
y=2

[Xcoder]

this happened to me and made me f***ing angry, not entirely related to VB but to the computer hosting the program I made...

- If you have an ISA card (if there are any left in the world) never try joining the -12V line to GND. You'll need to find another power source...

[alkatran]

Is there ANY reason to EVER have a programming language be case sensitive?? Are you ever going to want two variables, called A, and a? Isn't that just confusing???

I vote we make C++ case unsensitive!

[Electroman]

Posted by alkatran
I vote we make C++ case unsensitive!

I second that.
Then the intelisense should work properly even when you just type in lower case .