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Another day fixing shonky code in an obscure language

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    Another day fixing shonky code in an obscure language

    Its the red headed step child of VB today.

    Thank goodness they pay well.

    #2
    Well if you will keep writing it...

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      #3
      Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
      Well if you will keep writing it...
      I'm just sticky taping it at the moment. I suggested doing it in something decent but they have built a whole process on it 100s of macros, not so much biblical sand as a foundation more made from a swamp with alligators.

      But hey they pay pretty well and I work from home.

      I'm using it to auto create python, BIML, SQL code soon, not just JSON & Yaml.

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        #4
        Originally posted by vetran View Post

        I'm just sticky taping it at the moment. I suggested doing it in something decent but they have built a whole process on it 100s of macros, not so much biblical sand as a foundation more made from a swamp with alligators.

        But hey they pay pretty well and I work from home.

        I'm using it to auto create python, BIML, SQL code soon, not just JSON & Yaml.
        As eek would say, you're just there for the entertainment (and the generous day rate , obvs!).
        "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
        - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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          #5
          Originally posted by vetran View Post

          I'm just sticky taping it at the moment. I suggested doing it in something decent but they have built a whole process on it 100s of macros, not so much biblical sand as a foundation more made from a swamp with alligators.

          But hey they pay pretty well and I work from home.

          I'm using it to auto create python, BIML, SQL code soon, not just JSON & Yaml.
          any Cobol and Fortran?
          "A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George Orwell

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            #6
            Originally posted by Paddy View Post

            any Cobol and Fortran?
            Or LISP
            …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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              #7
              Originally posted by Paddy View Post

              any Cobol and Fortran?
              Nah an obscure variant of basic not even from M$.

              Have over my life bodged various UNIX scripts, LANSA, various VB variants, C, C++,perl various reporting languages/scripts QLik , Diver, OBIEE etc.

              Next its Python

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                #8
                APL? It's ok as long as no one nicks the golfball out of the printer. .

                https://techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/~jo...llprinter.HTML
                Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 12 January 2023, 23:22.
                When the fun stops, STOP.

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                  #9
                  Hurrah now I am head Macro wonk, no good deed goes unpunished

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by vetran View Post
                    Hurrah now I am head Macro wonk, no good deed goes unpunished
                    Nope, that belongs to LM, who is still working on her killer 2 line life story macro.
                    But I discovered nothing else but depraved, excessive superstition. Pliny the younger

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