C is a dead end skill?

[minestrone]

Most java systems I have worked on are written like a procedural program, sadly.

Financial systems are the worst for it, all written about 2000 and the designer was a COBOL programmer with 20 years experience writing on mainframes and 2 weeks reading a java book on the train.

[nomadd]

Most java systems I have worked on are written like a procedural program, sadly.

Financial systems are the worst for it, all written about 2000 and the designer was a COBOL programmer with 20 years experience writing on mainframes and 2 weeks reading a java book on the train.

Sounds like the mess of a web system I've been ploughing my way through today. It uses all the right tools, but in all the wrong ways. Still, that's permies for you! Peanuts = Monkeys. (Plus a contractor to come along and fix - i.e. re-write - it. )

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[minestrone]

Sounds like the mess of a web system I've been ploughing my way through today. It uses all the right tools, but in all the wrong ways. Still, that's permies for you! Peanuts = Monkeys. (Plus a contractor to come along and fix - i.e. re-write - it. )

Nomadd

Cracker of a system I am on just now, GUI system which takes XML in from a mainframe and turns it into a java object to be placed on a screen but rather than just...

customerNameTextField = customerObjectDerivedFromXML.getName() ;
customerAddressTextField = customerObjectDerivedFromXML.getAddress() ;

they have a 'layer' where you have to manually place all the customer fields into an 2D array, shuffle it up to a GUI framework that takes the array and then manually strip the array into the fields using static text keys from a 2000 line long config class.

Taken me 2 weeks to do 2 days work.

[VectraMan]

Why haven't I been paying attention to this thread?

Huh? How you are even declaring a class in C?

ANSI C (C89)/ISO C (C90) keywords:

* auto
* break
* case
* char
* const
* continue
* default
* do
* double
* else
* enum
* extern
* float
* for
* goto
* if
* int
* long
* register
* return
* short
* signed
* sizeof
* static
* struct
* switch
* typedef
* union
* unsigned
* void
* volatile
* while

Keywords added to ISO C (C99) (Supported only in new compilers):

* _Bool
* _Complex
* _Imaginary
* inline

Cheers,

Nomadd

struct.

It's the same thing. Honest.

[nomadd]

...they have a 'layer' where you have to...

Taken me 2 weeks to do 2 days work.

Ah, "layers".

I've just spent 2 days trying to figure out how the current system I'm working on sends an email! You'd have thought things couldn't be simpler with the Java Mail API, but these guys decided to add 4 layers (!) of "helper" classes on top.

Add to this that I'm working with a European and an Indian permie who don't speak good English, and you have no idea how slow progress can be...

Still, I will kiss this months invoice once it's paid.

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