******** damn schools!!!

[Spotted Cheetah]

[quot]Good to see you're back spamming TBBQ.[/quot]

What does this actually mean? I now really not know... (I am posting here by
downloading the stuff fastly in Notepad, then writing offline, then posting
them. This way i have to be online just less than 5 minutes daily, it is
expensive in Hungary, but this method can sometimes mess up posts).


Back to that coding thing: i think a well commented code never needs further
explanation what i could experience all over the Internet. On the other hand
now i have my own coding scheme what not fits to the others, but has certain
advantages what makes my development much easier. To see an example look in
my QBasic FM Midiplayer's source: there the function / variable naming
conventions came from my idea primarily to distinguish well the groups, and
to avoid accidental redeclarations (That was the first code what i wrote
fully fitting to that). I am using that convention in my larger C(++)
project(s) too. I have others too, but they are not so important.

As i said i think i would never run in problems understanding other codes
if they are explained well. The convention itself does not help anything.
For example the Hungarian convention for variable naming is only good when
more people work on exactly the same function, otherwise in the prototypes
any name can be given fitting to any convention. I think my convention has
more use in large C projects: fitting to that will hopefully effectively
prevent accidental redeclarations. At overall i think the best is to create
a coding scheme fitting to everyone working on a source, and then doing it
that way. An other possibility what would not be really hard, but boring is
to write some program what can reorder source codes to fit to a convention,
then there would be no problem if for example two programmers have to work
together who got used to different coding schemes. Forcing a coding
convention on somebody who got used to one different one already has no
point: the only result of it can be that the programmer fails to do his/her
job.

So i think teaching a convention by force can only make a programmer
narrow - minded so that (s)he will finally really not be able to understand
codes written using other schemes no matter how good they are explained. If
(s)he can build up his/her scheme on her/his own, then (s)he will better
understand other schemes too, and will be able to program for example using
three or more ones when it is needed. Since the information technology
develops fastly, programming does too, so that it can never be said that
this is the "perfect ultimate coding convention". So understanding more, and
having the alibity of dynamically changing, or developing better ways will
never hurt.

What goes in the school is just money, and lazyness. It is far more easier
to stuff the heads with programming in a half year than actually teaching
it, but of course this will only go if somebody actually learned programming
already to the time they are doing this. Others, possibly ones who would
become a great programmer with careful leading, will turn away. It is not
teaching.

I am just speaking for freedom instead of that cruel, money - oriented
lifestyle going on nowadays. We have the power to make human life better,
but it would be against those 1% who own 99% of the materials of the world.
And that 1% is not happy like the other 99%, but they fear from losing
their damn money... It really have to go this way??

[Anonymous]

i agree with a lot of points you made. but you hit the main subject yourself: money.

as long as money is what makes the world turn, these things will never change.

[dream]imagine if our currency was love instead of greenbacks[/dream] *sigh*

[Spotted Cheetah]

ChaOs: You partially hit the truth, but only partially. Money is the currency
of power, and that is what ruins our civilization.
To make it better understandable take the example of the animals. They are
instinctively eating up everything what they find. In their real life this is
not a problem since they have to find their own food: their situation well
balances this instinct. But when they are being kept by humans and they can
get as many food as they wish, usually they will eat it all no matter how fat
will they become even if they become unable to live their usual life because
of it what makes them unhappy. They are usually unable to take control over
this (not to mention that they will not suffer any consequence due to their
fatness from their party).
The same applies to typical humans and power (nice to say here that humans are
better than animals while they can not control their instincts like them).
They can not regulate themselves, so if they get the alibity of gaining more
and more power, they will do everything for it no matter if they ruin
hundereds of lifes during that including, and possibly mostly their own. The
sin of capitalism is here: it leaves running this free into the madness
destroying our world in all aspect.
The sin of school strikes out here too: instead of triing to regulate the
instinct of power, by gathering children in their early age, and making a
rowd of them it strengthens that making the next generation possibly much
worse than the recent ones.
This is something from what it seems to be impossible to break out cause
school is mandatory, and there is not too much alternatives. It grabs children
from their parents, and mostly make them cruel like the world they live in.
Somebody can only get out of this by finding some place where (s)he can get
out of the typical hierarchies at usual jobs, and in the same time learn to
rule over his/her instinct of power. This way somebody may live a happier
life, but always with the fear of that if not her/himself, the children will
fall back possibly no matter what (s)he does because of the laws forcing them
away from their parents.

A little off from this: as i am studiing what is happening in the world the
recent "environmental friendly" techniques seem to be just again something in
what companies can break, or take the rule over others. It needs more and more
money what only the largests can supply so they are using it to bring other
smaller ones on their knees. What a horrid aspect of protecting the nature...