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[Benedict A55h0le not]

"Regenault: The SWiST Registry Penetranaught." was the best thing SWiST ever had !!!!! I love it.

Grant made that sweet helmet icon - that thing was legend.

I was inspired by Herman`s huge Mannemerak motorbike helmet, so I ask Grant to create an icon based on it. I also remember you built the task manager app with an error we put in: "Bad user! Critical system meltdown detected. Don`t ever do that again!"

 

[Rouxenator]

I was inspired by Herman`s huge Mannemerak motorbike helmet, so I ask Grant to create an icon based on it. I also remember you built the task manager app with an error we put in: "Bad user! Critical system meltdown detected. Don`t ever do that again!"

Ja that helmet was classic!

There was loads of weird code at SWiST, somewhere in CSMS old Steven wrote this huge ASP VB script subroutine that did most of the work, it was a messy state machine. He called it sub Marine with the comment this is where my code took a dive

I looked through my old SWiST stuff and found a few calls made to that sub.


Sadly there was no Reginault in there. Although I did find "WebApplication4" which was that library app, the first .NET 1.0 App in SWiST that you wrote.

 

[Dylan_G]

I started professionally coding in Java and a bit of C++, followed by a few years doing a lot of PLSQL (oracle's codified versions of SQL).

Ah good old PL/SQL. Spent about 4 years coding in PL/SQL at my first job. Not that often that you hear of it.

Changed stacks and trying to get up to speed with Java dev now.

 

[Cius]

Ah good old PL/SQL. Spent about 4 years coding in PL/SQL at my first job. Not that often that you hear of it.

Changed stacks and trying to get up to speed with Java dev now.

PLSQL was actually pretty neat. Especially for data transformation type work which was the area I was working in. Having an SQL language that you can use actual embedded code in was very useful for manipulating the data. I still work with that old team a lot and they still use it as far as I am aware.

 

[Rouxenator]

Having wasted years in PL/SQL I can confirm oom Billy does it better. T-SQL is miles ahead.

That said, the coolest things I did with Oracle was host array inserts from a C# Windows service - good gravy that was fast.

 

[cguy]

I started professionally coding in Java and a bit of C++, followed by a few years doing a lot of PLSQL (oracle's codified versions of SQL). After that moved more into the financial space where its all python. Its been 10 years since I last wrote a line of code in anything other than python and at this stage I would struggle to go back to Java or C++. Been too long.

Honestly Python is great for what we use it for but I would not use it to develop apps from scratch. As a non compiled language its just too slow. However it can work well as the scripting side of a C/Java based app. One of the greatest games ever written was done like that. Civ IV was written in a compiled language but all the scripting side was python. Also a popular approach for some webapps I believe.

Still, because python is arguably easier to pick up I suspect it to continue to rise through the ranks. Its been steadily gaining/growing for years now.

I use mostly C++ and Python these days. Very complementary languages. C++ for actual applications and heavy number crunching, and Python for interactive scripting, and also job configuration and scheduling.

 

[Benedict A55h0le not]

Ja that helmet was classic!

There was loads of weird code at SWiST, somewhere in CSMS old Steven wrote this huge ASP VB script subroutine that did most of the work, it was a messy state machine. He called it sub Marine with the comment this is where my code took a dive

I looked through my old SWiST stuff and found a few calls made to that sub.
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Sadly there was no Reginault in there. Although I did find "WebApplication4" which was that library app, the first .NET 1.0 App in SWiST that you wrote.

Wow you still have some of Oom Steuwel`s code! Yes WebApplication4 is mine - the .NET 1 un-renameable production project! Kaptein worked overtime but was never able to rename it.