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Your message on my talk page

...deleting or editing legitimate comments, as you did at Talk:Comparison of programming languages (basic instructions), is considered as a bad practice, ...

I did what?! You asked for

Any suggestions for other languages or features...

and you got mine. I don't see any bad practice in doing this on the talk page. I'm sorry that I did not properly sign my edit back than. Thanks! Ghettoblaster (talk) 16:08, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

I appreciate your contributions, but I expected it in the form of a reply, not as an edit to my original comment. As I said, I don't know a lot about PowerShell, so anything I contribute is probably incorrect. As for Python, that has been done.

I'm still new here (maybe I should go easy on the warnings) --Btx40 (talk) 16:23, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

C++ example with std::string

Hi there. The change to use string on the C++ entry was understandable but would fail in practice for a number of reasons. A correct version is below, and maybe the section in ?: should be updated accordingly to provide a full C++ example for novice readers, although learning when not to use STL is an important lesson too.

#include <string>
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>

using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
    string name;
    ofstream fout;

    if (argc > 1)
    {
        name = argv[1];
        fout.open(name.c_str(), ios::out | ios::app);
    }

    ostream& sout = (name.empty() ? cout : fout);
}

I guess that would be ok - I saw std::string used in teaching C++. I forgot about the #include and didn't really think about empty().

Maybe I should stick to C#. --Btx40 (talk) 19:17, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

C++ is enjoyable when you get friends with it :) but so are many languages and they all have their pros and cons. STL has its problems though and is poorly designed in some respects. Programs using STL container classes can suffer from serious code bloat, and while rich from a mathematical functional perspective, it has some poorly named methods (such as the empty() method) and lacks common functions that developers actually need to use; for me it's always had the feel of being designed by mathematicians rather than real world programmers, although I put that aside these days, live with the flaws and use it heavily.

Moggie2002 (talk) 19:37, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

C's lack of a true string datatype

Why is it that C does not have a string datatype? This is one of the most short-sighted omissions that I am aware of. --Btx40 (talk) 17:58, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

• Possible reasons might have been to allow custom efficient ad-hoc string manipulation and creation; one can for instance decide to split a string in tokens, replacing separators by NIL characters and filling an array of char pointers to the beginning of every token; use word-aligned optimized memory manipulation functions; alternatively one may malloc(3) a huge block of memory, or mmap(2) a file and consider it as a string if it's text. Of course, this doesn't prevent you from using or writing a safer, higher-level string library, though (some security-critical software use this to minimize overflows). I guess that a possible C design choice would have been to include a typedef from char * to string, which may also be done in a custom header file, somewhat like CL STRING which is actually a VECTOR/ARRAY of BASE-CHAR or CHARACTER entries, so that sequence functions may also be used on it, but STRING is still a type and string-specific functions also exist.66.11.179.30 (talk) 00:57, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Mesh (disambiguation)

I wouldn't say it was pointless. I deleted a red link which are not supposed to be on disambiguation pages. It has prompted you to put the link back with the correct capiltalisation. I would say I have achieved something worthwile there. It would help if you take a look at your work after editing to make sure it is right before walking away. Better still, look at it in preview before you save it. If you had done that you would have seen the red link error, corrected it straight away and there would not have been a problem.

By the way, that meaning is pretty tenuous. A term that originated in The tonsil of the Intercal reference manual is just a joke. But let it stand, I'm not gettting into a war over something so silly. SpinningSpark 17:50, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

I think that this meaning has been used outside of a joke context (if not then it can be deleted - I won't complain). --Btx40 (talk) 17:56, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Changes made by SmackBot

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Eep... I'm sorry

Oh wow, I'm sorry! I should be more careful. I went back to the page to investigate what had happened, and it seems that somehow I "edited" an old version, which had already been fixed... (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trackball&oldid=237247357 -- I was removing the "Link title" at the bottom that went to skindroop.com)

I don't recall seeing anything at the top of the edit page warning me that I was editing an older version, so I didn't think anything of it. I just wanted to get rid of the vandalism. Again, I'm really sorry about that and in the future, I'll definitely make sure I'm not fixing something that's already been fixed. Thanks for pointing it out to me.

And as a Blackberry user, I agree, they aren't pornographic. :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.217.76.178 (talk) 00:57, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for clearing that up. Please remember to sign your talk posts. I don't know how reliable SineBot is --Btx40 (talk) 15:41, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Comparison of programming languages (enumeration)

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Dragon Quest XI

You moved the page earlier, but it shouldn't have been per WP:SUBTITLES and WP:CONCISE. I'll bring this up on WP:RM if there is any disagrement. ~ Dissident93 ^(talk) 08:30, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

• EDIT: Done, make your argument there. ~ Dissident93 ^(talk) 22:39, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

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