Re: PCB design.

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:12:35 -0400, Chuck Harris
<cf-NO-SPAM-harris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Wrighty wrote:
I a mnot very happy with the snide remarks.

Then you best stay away from the usenet. The guys were very mild
with you.

I have been a programmer and electronics engineer for 25 years now.

Ditto, only I am approaching 30 years.

As a design consultant I was expected to pick up any area of
electronics or any programming language and get stuck in.

Only the ones you chose to accept. I never was willing to program
in microsoft proprietary languages, like VB and C#

VB sucks but...C# is actually a really nice language, been using it
for many ears now with no regrets.


The DOS version was 330,000 lines of assembler.

Uh huh. Only an idiot would write that many lines of assembler
to run on DOS. I say that from experience (both of being an idiot, and
a programmer). I started programming DOS when the base IBM-PC machine
was 16K with a single floppy disk. There was no way that that machine
could run a 330K line assembly language program. It couldn't even fit
one on its floppy disk drive. By the time the IBM-PC came with 640K on
board, and two DSDD floppy disk drives, there were at least 3 decent C
compilers available (Computer Innovations was the best). They didn't
make perfect code, but they easily would handle the structure, and let
you use assembly wherever speed was really important.

The Pascal version was around 100,000.

Turbo Pascal was the dominant pascal back in the DOS days, and I am sure
that it would croak with a 100K line program. Something about it's
com file format, with its combined 64K I&D space.

Disregarding wether it is possible or not, only a newbie would
actually give a crap about lines of code. I mean, lines of code is
about as relevant as our current planetary alignment.


The C# version was around 100,000

Just to astound you even more I recently converted one of the modules
to C++ and Visual basic.

Whoopie! I converted a lawn mower into a minibike once!

Now why did ya do a thing like that? Coulda just bought a harley, they
come already converted for you from the factory! =)

--
Stephan
2003 Yamaha R6

kimi no koto omoidasu hi
nante nai no wa
kimi no koto wasureta toki ga nai kara
.

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