Re: Puppy Mastiff wants to Nip at Faces

On Aug 11, 1:20 pm, "Paul E. Schoen" <pst...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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On Aug 9, 3:37 pm, sh...@xxxxxxxxx (Melinda Shore) wrote:



I first learned "Structured Programming" in Pascal at Towson University
in
1987.

If you'd *learned* structured programming you'd have learned
how to loop through an array, something that's covered in the
first couple of weeks of an introductory data structures
course. It's more accurate to say that you took a class.

  Yeah, it seems to me by my recollection that loops were... chapter two
  I believe, in my first college textbook on structured programming.  I
  believe arrays were covered in chapter 3, and the very first thing
  they did was loop through an array to show how you could easily access
  the data.  All this was of course covered in the first week of class.
  And this was just an introductory programming course CS 101 that I
  took my first term at college.  It was of course all old knowledge to
  me as like most of my other class mates (the ones who didn't switch to
  a management major after the first term), we had taught ourselves all
  of that before high school and had similar courses in high school.  Of
  course, the formal instruction on it was very important, as we learned
  the right ways to do things we might not have been using all along.

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Apparently all of this childish and off-topic snarking was based on an old
version of my on-line form, which I had just cobbed together quickly as an
example. I later used some of the same techniques that you are claiming I
don't know, and the newer version is:

http://www.smart.net/~pstech/DogLicenseJS.htm

This is still not a finished work, and I am not going to devote any more
time and effort to it unless someone would like to implement it for the
purpose intended. I still think it is a viable idea. The details are open
to discussion. If you want to contribute to that, you are welcome to do so.
Otherwise you are simply being ignorant and confrontational. I tried to
contribute something to address a problem, and criticism of the code is an
entirely separate issue, unless your goal is just a childish attack. You
probably cannot do better without investing a lot of time, so either make a
significant improvement, or make some other sort of positive contribution..

If you really want to help improve the code, please advise how to do an
enumeration in JavaScript, so that array elements may be addressed by name
rather than number. If you care enough to look at the code, you will see
how I attempted to do this. As I said before, I am used to Borland C and
Borland Delphi, in which I could have done some of this more elegantly.

Paul and Muttley

If I had the spare time to "cob" something together, I would have used
arrays and loops because it makes for less work. No, I will not try
and improve your crack pot licensing fee calculator. I disagree with
the theory behind the pricing scheme and as such will not contribute
to it in any way shape or form. If I was working on something I truly
thought I could con some politician into implementing, I would have
put more effort into it then "cobbing" it together.

Nick
.

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