Re: Why?? (prog question)

2009-04-01 Thread Oliver Fromme
(Note: Redirected to -chat.) William Gordon Rutherdale wrote: There is a very logical reason in C for wanting to put the opening brace of an 'if' statement on a separate line: preprocessor statements. The preprocessor is one of the biggest mistakes in the design of the C language. This

Re: April Fools from /etc/periodic/monthly/200.accounting?

2009-04-01 Thread Oliver Fromme
David Wolfskill wrote: [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: us-ascii, 30 lines --] From one of the systems here, running 7.1-STABLE as of 11 Jan 2009: Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 05:30:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Charlie Root r...@albert.catwhisker.org To:

Re: April Fools from /etc/periodic/monthly/200.accounting?

2009-04-01 Thread David Wolfskill
On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 05:40:57PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: ... I'm not exactly sure if you expect a serious answer, From -c...@? Surely you must be joking! :-) but here it is anyway. Of course, the above numbers are nonsense, even the one for lynette (2903 hours would be about 120

Re: Why?? (prog question)

2009-04-01 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Oliver Fromme wrote: Note: I've redirected this to -chat. This thread does *not* belong on the -questions list. Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: William Gordon Rutherdale wrote: In all of those cases, I simply press the Tab key to indent, and the Backspace key to

Re: why was XFree86 dropped for ports?

2009-04-01 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I can't justify keeping this is ports any longer, I think it violates the list's rules, no matter how much I like this thread, so I'm moving it to -chat. If you think I'm wrong, I guess it could be moved again. matt donovan wrote: snip

Re: Why?? (prog question)

2009-04-01 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lowell Gilbert wrote: Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org writes: The only real sin is not sticking to one style per project. Or at *least* per file. Umm, no, per project. Folks are too pushed into errors when a project has 29 different styles. I

Re: Why?? (prog question)

2009-04-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org writes: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org writes: The only real sin is not sticking to one style per project. Or at *least* per file. Umm, no, per project. Folks are too pushed into errors when a project has 29 different styles. If

Re: Why?? (prog question)

2009-04-01 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
KAYVEN RIESE ka...@sfsu.edu writes: [...] I hold a BSCS from the late cretaceous of 1989. After that I started studying molecular biology [...] having idioticaly tried to get back into computer science [...] Have you considered combining the two (computer science and molecular biology) and

Re: Why?? (prog question)

2009-04-01 Thread William Gordon Rutherdale
KAYVEN RIESE wrote: On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Oliver Fromme wrote: Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: William Gordon Rutherdale wrote: In all of those cases, I simply press the Tab key to indent, and the Backspace key to dedent. There is no need to change habits. The editor takes care of it.

Re: Why?? (prog question)

2009-04-01 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: KAYVEN RIESE ka...@sfsu.edu writes: [...] I hold a BSCS from the late cretaceous of 1989. After that I started studying molecular biology [...] having idioticaly tried to get back into computer science [...] Have you considered combining the

Re: Why?? (prog question)

2009-04-01 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, William Gordon Rutherdale wrote: KAYVEN RIESE wrote: On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Oliver Fromme wrote: Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: William Gordon Rutherdale wrote: In all of those cases, I simply press the Tab key to indent, and the Backspace key to dedent. There is

Re: Why?? (prog question)

2009-04-01 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
KAYVEN RIESE ka...@sfsu.edu writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav d...@des.no writes: Have you considered combining the two (computer science and molecular biology) and going into bioinformatics? disaster. data mining people don't give a @*# about the facts. I'm not sure to whom you refer as data