Sometimes ya gotta go low tech

[J5]

On a side note (but not completely unrelated) at spring break one of my "buddies" used the line: "Dont worry, all 5 of us are eagle scouts" as a means of trying to convince the girls to take us home...

...I dont suggest it, but it might work better than VB...

funnily enough we had a meeting the other night  , one of the topics was selling extended warranties , if you dont ask people to buy them , they wont buy them

the boss's analogy , when he was young and went to the pub he asked as many girls as he could for a root , if you ask enough times you eventually get one , he said he still uses the same thory after 35 years of marriage  if he doesnt ask he doesnt get one

lol

[Speeddog]

I actually took a class in that. The first thing the teacher told us was that it was a dead language and used to be fulfill foreign language requirements. They've since stopped offering the class.

VB makes me feel like I'm working with Matlab again. 

I ran FORTRAN on punch cards.
Even had to walk uphill through the snow both ways to run it on the mainframe. 

I know nothing about VB or Matlab.

How about QBasic?

[freeclimbmtb]

Funny you mention that, I was telling the guy that sits next to me about this post...he brought up the fact that when going back for his degree he had to take a Basic class...(not Visual Basic...just Basic)  Oh, that was 3 years ago?!?!  I gave up on basic when the batteries died in my wireless keyboard for my PC junior in 1992...that thing had Basic on a cartridge...and the optional 64kb memory upgrade!!!!  That thing makes my Duc look like Skynet!

[duccarlos]

Java Swing always gets the babes.

[77south]

Real men code in INTERCAL.

[erkishhorde]

I ran FORTRAN on punch cards.
Even had to walk uphill through the snow both ways to run it on the mainframe. 

I know nothing about VB or Matlab.

How about QBasic?

Nope, don't know QBasic. Matlab is like a overpowered calculator that requires scripting to work. It can do spiffy stuff if you take the time to code it. We used it in our higher level analytical classes for doing things like... Well, what the crap did we do with it? Haha... Uh... When we learned how to do stress analysis of plate elements we did it by hand and then did it with Matlab to try and learn how the analysis programs work. *shrug*

[Popeye the Sailor]

There's something about a thread of geeks so geeky they make engineers look cool.......

especially when they start talking about picking up women.

[zooom]

There's something about a thread of geeks so geeky they make engineers look cool.......

especially when they start talking about picking up women.

geeks make programs...engineers figure out the dynamics of the mechanical device to achieve the same task/goal...meanwhile...the assholes of the world have already run off with the initial objects of affections and make the beast with two backsed it up for the rest of the world!

[Monsterlover]

Sorry, man

that's just how we roll

[Pip]

Sorry, man

that's just how we roll

+1 to the Deal King.

[DucatiMonsters4r]

I agree go buy books in person

[DucatiMonsters4r]

 

[the_Journeyman]

Do it in FORTRAN.

What about COBOL?

JM

[Privateer]

[WarrenJ]

When I was a Senior in Highschool, we got an 8K Apple, then the school upgraded to the new 16K Apple!!!  Then off to college programming FORTRAN with punchcards on the VAX mainframe for Engineering Methods.   I don't miss it.