Comments on: Sloppy Programming

By: jen

jen — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:06:32 +0000

I’m with Paul.

By: Procrasto

Procrasto — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:44:02 +0000

10 PRINT “I don’t understand Programming”
20 Repeat 10

By: lambic

lambic — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:17:27 +0000

Well I was thinking of if you wanted to convert all numbers to their text equivalents.

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:58:38 +0000

It’s not that less trivial, is it? Something like:
print(”You have “+ (msgs==1 ? “one” : msgs)+” new message”+ (msgs == 1 ? “.” : “s.”));

By: lambic

lambic — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 22:59:50 +0000

In my defense, the code was in the context of geographical quizzes so in most cases the an before the H would be appropriate in that context. The fact that the Traveler IQ app doesn’t have any challenges starting with H means I could’ve left it out though.

I never understood the an before H thing anyway, we had it drummed into us at school but it never made sense to me. In theory your comment is grammatically correct, but it’s horrible to read.

Luckily we’re not staying in an hotel for our upcoming vacation.

By: Fagstein

Fagstein — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 22:39:22 +0000

I think its an hop from vowels to Hs.
That doesn’t make an happy man out of me. It doesn’t give me an high. It looks like an half-baked idea.
Let me give you an hand in fixing it. I have an head on my shoulders. You just have to adjust it by an hair. I don’t need much money, just offer me an hamburger, an hammer, or an ham sandwich.
Consider putting an hold on that code in the meantime.

(Sorry, don’t mean to give you an hard time)

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:59:22 +0000

He’s a geek! Burn him!

I noticed something similar in a ticker I use on my baby blog to track Jack’s age. It would say something like “Jack is 5 months and 1 days old”. Gah.

By: jen

jen — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:15:54 +0000

I totally noticed you were using pseudo-code in those examples.