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Re: New Term: Zombie Language
by Gene Wirchenko 20 Feb '18

20 Feb '18

At 09:08 2018-02-20, Ricardo Araoz <ricaraoz(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Does anyone remember PL/I? Yes. It looked like it might be good, but it was so difficult to write a bulletproof program. (I tried.) All those ON units. The modern equivalent of that terror is exceptions. [snip] Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko

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Re: New Term: Zombie Language
by Gene Wirchenko 20 Feb '18

20 Feb '18

At 08:00 2018-02-20, mbsoftwaresolutions(a)mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote: >On 2018-02-19 07:15, Alan Bourke wrote: >>On Mon, 19 Feb 2018, at 11:49 AM, Ted Roche wrote: >>>On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 5:02 AM, Laurie Alvey <trukker41(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> > I guess FORTRAN & PASCAL would qualify. >>> > >>>The only differentiation I might make is whether there are >>>implementations still out in the world. Pascal and Fortran have more >>>or less complete and free compilers available . >>In the case of Pascal there's also Delphi and Oxygene in the >>commercial products world. Pascal is far from a zombie language. > > >Pascal was one of my first true programming language >loves. Beautiful language from my recollection of 30 years ago. Yech! I felt more along the lines of Brian Kernighan who wrote https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-on-pascal.html in 1981. The language may well have changed considerably since then, but one of his concerns at the time was writing a piece of software that could be easily ported and so he wanted to use standard Pascal. Personally, I hate the way Pascal handled sequential reads. Priming reads are nasty. Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko

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RE: [NF] RE: Timers in VFP
by Ken Dibble 19 Feb '18

19 Feb '18

And, for what it's worth, (and strangely enough), although the local airport is now called the "Greater Binghamton Airport", the actual _field_, as in "airfield", is still called "Edwin A. Link Field". Ken >John, > >I had a play around with the early GAT-1 >simulator but never got to try out the GAT-2 and subsequent models.. <sigh> > >For their day they were extremely advanced. > >News dated 1988: >"TORONTO, July 8 The Singer Commpany agreed >today to sell its Link flight simulation and >training systems division to CAE Industries of Canada for $550 million. >The sale is part of the breakup of Singer. The >Stamford, Conn., military contractor was >acquired in January by the Florida financier >Paul Bilzerian, who has since said that all of >Singer's divisions are up for sale. >Also today, Singer agreed to sell its education division for $20 million. >On Tuesday, Singer said it would sell its power >tools and floor-care equipment division to Ryobi >Ltd. of Japan for about $325 million. >CAE, a Toronto-based manufacturer of commercial >flight simulators and other industrial products, >said it had reached a definitive agreement with >Singer to buy the Link division. It said it >would finance the cost of the acquisition >internally and through bank borrowings. >Singer's Link division, based in Binghamton, >N.Y., employs 7,500 and posted revenues of $550 million in 1987. >Analysts said the purchase would more than >double CAE's size and would create a leading producer of flight simulators. >''I think it will be the world's leader in >commercial and military flight simulation,'' >said Mark Lawrence, a technology analyst for >Prudential-Bache Securities Canada Ltd. >Separately, Integrated Resources Inc. announced >today that it would purchase Singer's education >division for $20 million. The division, known as >Career Systems Development, is an operator of vocational training centers. >The sales of these divisions will help Mr. >Bilzerian pay off debt he accumulated during his >$1.06 billion takeover of Singer, which came >after a long battle with management." > > >Dave Crozier >Software Development Manager >Flexipol Packaging Ltd. > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------- >This communication and the information it >contains is intended for the person or >organisation to whom it is addressed. Its >contents are confidential and may be protected >in law. If you have received this e-mail in >error you must not copy, distribute or take any >action in reliance on it. Unauthorised use, >copying or disclosure of any of it may be >unlawful. 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Until such >time as the property in the goods passes to the >buyer, the buyer shall hold the goods as the >seller's fiduciary agent and bailee and keep the >goods separate from those of the buyer and third >parties and properly stored protected and >insured and identified as the seller's property >but shall be entitled to resell or use the goods >in the ordinary course of its business. Until >such time as the property in the goods passes to >the buyer the seller shall be entitled at any time > >-----Original Message----- >From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of John Weller >Sent: 19 February 2018 10:30 >To: profox(a)leafe.com >Subject: RE: [NF] RE: Timers in VFP > >Hi Ken, > >Thanks for that. I was a navigator in the RAF >for many years and was seconded to the UK arm of >Singer Link between 1978 and 1982 to work on the >Tornado simulator project. The Binghamton >office was doing some work for the project hence >my visit. I often wondered what happened to them after I left :-) > >Regards > >John > >John Weller >01380 723235 >07976 393631 > > > > > John, > > > > For some reason this message didn't get delivered to my work email. I > > was just combing through the list at home and saw it today. > > > > Singer Link is gone. CAE Corp bought it, and Hughes Aircraft bought > > CAE >and > > relocated most of the simulator stuff to Arlington, TX. The federal > > government had a couple of classifed projects going at the Binghamton >plant > > and insisted they stay there. Those are now owned by > > L3 and are still located at the industrial park in Kirkwood. Most of > > the >Singer- > > Link building has been taken over and converted to a multi-tenant space. > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server]

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RE: [NF] RE: Timers in VFP
by John Weller 19 Feb '18

19 Feb '18

Hi Ken, Thanks for that. I was a navigator in the RAF for many years and was seconded to the UK arm of Singer Link between 1978 and 1982 to work on the Tornado simulator project. The Binghamton office was doing some work for the project hence my visit. I often wondered what happened to them after I left :-) Regards John John Weller 01380 723235 07976 393631 > > John, > > For some reason this message didn't get delivered to my work email. I was > just combing through the list at home and saw it today. > > Singer Link is gone. CAE Corp bought it, and Hughes Aircraft bought CAE and > relocated most of the simulator stuff to Arlington, TX. The federal > government had a couple of classifed projects going at the Binghamton plant > and insisted they stay there. Those are now owned by > L3 and are still located at the industrial park in Kirkwood. Most of the Singer- > Link building has been taken over and converted to a multi-tenant space. >

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RE: [NF] RE: Timers in VFP
by John Weller 18 Feb '18

18 Feb '18

I visited Binghamton in 1981 to attend a meeting at Singer Link, wish I could have stayed longer. Are Singer Link still there? John Weller 01380 723235 07976 393631 > > HI Paul. Pleased to hear that you think it's pretty. I do too--you can be > anywhere in this town and look up and see forested hillsides. >

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Re: String Reference to Object
by AndyHC 16 Feb '18

16 Feb '18

may I suggest SCATTER .... NAME ... but using a cursoradapter is better!

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Re: String Reference to Object
by AndyHC 16 Feb '18

16 Feb '18

may I suggest SCATTER .... NAME

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by mbsoftwaresolutions＠mbsoftwaresolutions.com 15 Feb '18

15 Feb '18

"This new product called FOXPRO": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZqzJ6f3d7w

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Re: String Reference to Object
by Ken Dibble 15 Feb '18

15 Feb '18

> > Unfortunately, it does not work in my usual use case: as an alias. > > Example: > > use ccli > > where=evaluate("ccli") && Nope > > ? where.clcode > >Well, in that case you should be using an alias: > >use ccli alias TheTable > >? TheTable.clcode Well, I don't understand this at all. "Use" is a VFP command that only opens a table. The following works fine for me: CLOSE TABLES ALL ccli = "C:\Some Path To\SomeTable.dbf" USE (ccli) && table is now open EVALUATE() applies when the parameter you feed it is the name of an object or a variable that stores the name of another variable. You can do: var1 = 3 var2 = "var1" ? EVALUATE(var2) && 3 And you can do: myarray = "aList" oMyObj.AddProperty(myarray) ? ALEN(oMyObj.&myarray.,1) && 1 But if you want to do this: mytable = "foo" myfield = "bar" ? mytable.myfield Then you need to do: ? &mytable..&myfield A [table].[field] reference is not an object reference and can't be treated like one. It's a thing unto itself. Ken Dibble www.stic-cil.org

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Re: String Reference to Object
by Gene Wirchenko 15 Feb '18

15 Feb '18

At 11:07 2018-02-15, Jean MAURICE <jsm.maurice(a)wanadoo.fr> wrote: >Hi Gene, > >have you tried > >WITH (m.reference) > .referredto = > etc >ENDWITH > >? The WITH gives a datatype mismatch error. At any rate, I want to avoid WITH, because, 1) it gets messy for complicated statements and 2) I might need more than one different reference variable. Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko

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