On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 04:10:17 GMT, Grumman-581
wrote:

Roger (K8RI) wrote:
As a side note, you could start with about 37K of source code which is
what the greeters program ran for the EAA. That compiled into about 7
megs due to the DLLs

VB has always been a pig... Hell, even back in the non-Windows days of
just compiled MS-BASIC it sucked... It was hidden from you by the fact
that the executable was small because it didn't contain everything that
got loaded at runtime... You had to have the BASIC runtime loaded also...

The more languages I deal with over the years, the more I appreciate
straight 'C'... It's clean, it's efficient, it's predictable...

And they finally gave us the ability to turn the type checking on.
:-)) Originally it just assumed the programmer knew what they were
doing and let you do it what ever it was. Lordy...pointers with
dynamic memory, dynamic arrays, linked lists, circular linked lists
and bidirectional linked lists. It gave the programmer a good feel
for the two words, new and free. :-)) Oh yah, and memory leaks.

Straight C is what I wrote my first compiler in. I was the only one in
the class that wrote an input scanner using current and next state
arrays. They tell me I was only the third one in the history of the
school to do that. :-)) Every one else used logic statements.
Compiler wasn't bad but network theory almost did me in.


Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com