On 10/04/2010 11:52, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
I broke out in a cold sweat when I saw this: Its a common reaction among C neophytes, its because you had failed to declare your variables. If it happens again, splash some cold water on your face, sit down, declare your variables, and you'll feel a whole lot better!
"sit down and eat your vegetables" . . . Mmm . . . takes me back to a summer visit with my Granny in Dundee . . . who . . . believed that it was good to boil vegetables until they had no taste and no nutritional value left: end result - have just eaten a raw carrot and a raw turnip (washed down with black coffee) for my breakfast: try it; sets one up for the day! Certainly, having risen from my lumpy bed in a lumpy mood, a little bit of crudité makes me "feel a whole lot better". And, for all I know. RunRev may look a "bit raw" to the self-appointed gods of computer programming. I, for one, don't have any great pretensions to divinity in that area (nor any other, come to think of it, ha, ha). Personally I would rather risk "breaking a tooth" on the crunchy exterior of RunRev that do a "back to the future" with Objective-C, which reminds me of PASCAL 5 in a funny sort of way . . . in fact in such a funny sort of way that I would rather leave it, along with the memory of Granny's "biled greens" in the reasonably long-forgotten past. Although, to be fair, Granny also kept me well-supplied with mixed-boilings and the Beano. Programming-qua-programming I can see no obvious advantages in using Objective-C over RunRev; if, however, it can do the things on Linux that RunRev can do on Mac and Windows but cannot on Linux I may well have to control my gag reflex (wow, traumatised by PASCAL) and chomp on down. I really do feel (as I'm sure quite a few other folk must too) that I have invested a serious amount of time and effort getting up to some sort of speed with RunRev; and, as you, Peter, pointed out; age gets in the way; and I really don't have the time, the money, or the Mojo (???) to do 'that' all over again with Objective-C. Frankly, I would much prefer (but Ah jalouse naebody's clappin their gully lugs til ma scrievins) if RunRev for Linux could be 'sorted out' - and by that I mean brought exactly up to par with the Win and Mac versions (I wonder how many times I am going to scrieve that before . . . ). Now: if somebody could help me with some sort of a Wildcard method for Unicode I would be a considerably happier person! sincerely, Richmond Mathewson. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution