It is a pretty awesoke language. Give it a spin - it's super easy to pick up.

Fun fact, I email the creator of D.

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Sport is great. I like hockey.

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Re: Re: New in town
By: Deavmi to Nightfox on Thu Mar 23 2017 07:17 pm

After some time people will get onto here.

Do you advertise this network in anyway to BBS users?

I have some ads which I set up to be posted in some ad forums every week. I haven't checked in a while, but they should still be posted there on a regular basis. I've had DeveloperNet and MusicalNet for maybe 6 or 7 years, but there still isn't a whole lot of traffic on them.

Nightfox

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Re: New in town
By: Deavmi to Nightfox on Thu Mar 23 2017 05:49 pm

It is a pretty awesoke language. Give it a spin - it's super easy to pick up.

Are you referring to D? It would help if you quoted the message you're replying to so it's easier to follow the conversation.

Fun fact, I email the creator of D.

That's cool. Sometimes the language creators do get back to you. At one of my old jobs, my manager emailed Bjarne Stroustroup (the creator of C++) to ask a question about the language, and he actually replied within around 12 hours or so.

Nightfox

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Re: Re: New in town
By: Vk3jed to Nightfox on Fri Mar 24 2017 08:43 pm

C is (theoretically) a fairly simple language, since it doesn't have
object-oriented programming and other features of more modern
languages.

It has a lot of syntax and different ways of being used. I'm not great with rote memory. I found Java fairly straightforward in that regard.

I've found that there's a certain logic behind the syntax of the languages, and if you understand that logic, you can sort of figure out the syntax for many things without having to memorize it all. It's sort of like knowing the grammar rules for a spoken/written language - If you know the grammar rules, you can figure out what a word/sentence should look like.

I saw something online recently that said "I know more about Star
Trek than I do about sports - And I'm okay with that." ;)

Haha, I know a lot about both. I enjoy the thrill of high speed under my own power. :D

Nice :) I've been a Star Trek fan since I was a kid. I watched some of the Original Series episodes, and then started watching The Next Generation when it came out and went from there (and I also saw many of the movies in the theater).

Nightfox

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Re: New in town
By: Deavmi to Nightfox on Thu Mar 23 2017 05:49 pm

Are you referring to D? It would help if you quoted the message you're replying to so it's easier to follow the conversation.

That's cool. Sometimes the language creators do get back to you. At one of my old jobs, my manager emailed Bjarne Stroustroup (the creator of C++) to ask a question about the language, and he actually replied within around 12 hours or so.

Nightfox

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Yeah sorry , I was referring yo D.

Yeah language developers are cool people. I also chatted to Andreas Rumpf - the creator of Nim on IRC.
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Re: Re: New in town
By: Vk3jed to Nightfox on Fri Mar 24 2017 08:43 pm

I've found that there's a certain logic behind the syntax of the languages, and if you understand that logic, you can sort of figure out the syntax for many things without having to memorize it all. It's sort of like knowing the grammar rules for a spoken/written language - If you know the grammar rules, you can figure out what a word/sentence should look like.

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On 2017-03-23 07:10 PM, Nightfox wrote:

Hi everyone, I've just joined this network. Don't do a lot of software
development at this point in time, other than the occasional BASH shell
script.
However, I am looking at getting back into Pascal (with FPC now), as I used
to know Turbo Pascal 3-7 fairly well in the DOS days. Have dabbled in Java >> and Perl, and hacking the odd C program (with little knowledge!) over the
years. Also used to be reasonably proficient at Assembler on the 8086 and a >> few other micros of the day.

Anyway, looking forward to reading the net.

I hope you enjoy using DeveloperNet. Currently there isn't a whole lot of traffic, but hopefully over time more people will find DeveloperNet useful.

Nightfox

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Assembler. Dayum :)

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