On Aug 14, 6:08*pm, John Smith wrote:
On 8/13/2010 4:47 PM, K1TTT wrote:



On Aug 13, 10:59 pm, *wrote:
*...
It says a lot about ability and self esteem when someone has an email
address like his and says the things he does. *My guess is that I have
made a lot more money programming than he ever will. *And in a lot more
languages. *And a lot fewer bugs.

tom
K0TAR

amen on that... lets see, 42 years programming now, 26 getting paid
just for that, languages??? pdp8 assy, focal, fortran(several
versions), basic(several variants), pascal, x86 assy, vb, ada, c, c++,
c#, vb.net, asp.net, various jcl variations, ibm360 assy, 68xxx assy,
objective c, pl-1, apl, java, javascript, vrml, html, xaml, xml,
matlab, mathcad, and probably a few others i have forgotten.

Thanks, you saved me a lot of trouble. *And, when addressing a room full
of engineers from such varied programming experiences, one would use
pseudocode, a "universal language." *Indeed, a thesis would utilize the
same ...

Regards,
Mr. Ostrom

only if the thesis didn't care about the exact implementation, but did
depend on the algorithm. if the code were just a tool used to crunch
data, which is what it sounded like in that part of the discussion,
then the code itself may not even be part of the thesis, just the
results of crunching.