> Dimensioned vs Dynamic--brain damaged code is still brain damaged code.
I could not agree more! > the music majors passing themselves off as Pick programmers For the record I almost failed music history :) For those keeping track of suggestions for IBM here is one that would help bridge this divide. Allow re-dimensioning of dimensioned arrays at runtime. In VB you have the REDIM command and in C you can "re-dimension" damn near anything. Having this capability would provide the best of both worlds. Rich Taylor | Senior Programmer/Analyst| VERTIS 250 W. Pratt Street | Baltimore, MD 21201 P 410.361.8688 | F 410.528.0319 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.vertisinc.com Vertis is the premier provider of targeted advertising, media, and marketing services that drive consumers to marketers more effectively. "The more they complicate the plumbing the easier it is to stop up the drain" - Montgomery Scott NCC-1701 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 3:00 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] I'm in an Array quandry, any suggestions... I think one of the the things that we are overlooking is the underlying philosophy that machine cycles are cheap, and anything that cuts development or modification time is a Good Thing. You and I may not agree with that philosophy (having been victimized by code that took the idea to it's illogical conclusion), but keeping track of how many elements you need in a dimensioned array is one of the icky programmer type things that, historically, the music majors passing themselves off as Pick programmers were loath to do. But in the Real World, these kind of things usually (note the disclaimer) do not make much difference. I always enjoyed blowing someone's benchmark out of the water by sticking a single READ statement in the middle of their CPU intensive loop. It's all about the disk, mon. -- Regards, Clif On May 17, 2005, at 10:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > And then by that time, system programmers would be saying "Why can't > they > just all use dimensioned arrays dammit" :) I suppose. ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
