Question for Sapphire

[astralprincess]

krashlanmar said:

I don't hate Java. Well, yes, I do.

It's an easier language and is less powerful than C++, though after last semester's programming course I do respect it more.

I can understand it, at least. C++ is far (far far far far far) more error prone than Java is.

I've given up on programming though. I'm pretty good at it, if I do say so myself. There are better, but I'm at least decent. I just couldn't do it I guess. I don't even know how to explain it. I had to learn a million different languages to be an acceptable programmer and I guess I was too lazy to learn them in time.

Ahh, I didn't tell you. Before I was a physics major, I wanted to be a programmer. Game developer, as it were. (and before that a fantasy writer or a poet)

Don't think I'm good enough for that, but I won't ever know now, .

Unless I change majors...

Then again, physics is hard too. And more obscure; less focused. Bah.

Most traditional programming languages are unforgiving, like C++ and C. That's actually why I prefer web languages because they have a tendency to be lenient. I programmed asp back in the day mostly, but also did C++, Java, and eventually ASP.NET and C#. Then of course there are the "dummy" languages, as I like to call them, like HTML and JavaScript, that anyone can learn.

An odd similarity between us is the interest in physics. I have my master's in IT, but promised myself that if I ever went back to school again (for the heck of it, because I love to learn), I would pursue a degree in astro-physics. Yeah, I'm a total nerd. I can't help it though... I'm the type that sits glued to the science channel.

[astralprincess]

By the way Krash- where do you go to school?

[krashlanmar]

Stevens Institute of Technology. Our engineering program is better than most ivy league schools and other 'better-than-ivy' schools.

I just like to brag 'cause I did pisspoor in regular school and by some miracle I got into this sick-ass school. It's my second day of school; I already had a physics quiz.

EDIT and P.S.: I liked that C++ was more unforgiving simply because the harder the language is, the more powerful (in many cases. C++ included.)

BUT... A lot of the tendency for error in C++ lies in it's 'close enough' error checking. It checks everything and looks at what may or may not be implied and if you really don't know what you're doing, that can be a source of great great great great great frustration. I can't think of any higher level examples, but one thing is that the expression in an if statement doesn't need to be in parenthesis.

if true i++; is a rather confusing bit of code without parenthesis. Even if it's a low-level structure like an if statement.

EDIT#2: I'm currently in the process of coding a Visual Basic D&D character generator/leveler. Didn't want to do it in a higher-level language like Java because it was too simple a program for me to have to deal with Java's clunky window system. The ordering of crap in there is so bloody random!!!

Visual Basic was way more intuitive in that respect, and many others. Though I understand that the intuitiveness comes at the price of how much power the language actually has.

[king arthur]

That is a great school.

Two members of the Stevens community, as alumni or faculty, have been awarded the Nobel Prize: Frederick Reines (class of 1939), in Physics, and Irving Langmuir (Chemistry faculty 1906-1909), in chemistry.

Krash is going to take the third Nobel Prize someday for this school. You just wait and see.

[krashlanmar]

kingarthur said:

That is a great school.

Two members of the Stevens community, as alumni or faculty, have been awarded the Nobel Prize: Frederick Reines (class of 1939), in Physics, and Irving Langmuir (Chemistry faculty 1906-1909), in chemistry.

Krash is going to take the third Nobel Prize someday for this school. You just wait and see.

I doubt it, though it's something to shoot for.

Let me put it this way, I need to actually make money. I don't care about research; I'm going to have a family to take care of when I'm out of college. If it was to be just me, then maybe I'd think about getting a lower-paying research job somewhere, but since I'm going to get married I need to find a good job.

=]

[king arthur]

I have confidence in you, but don't think too hard, it will just come to you.

[king arthur]

krashlanmar said:

kingarthur said:

That is a great school.

Two members of the Stevens community, as alumni or faculty, have been awarded the Nobel Prize: Frederick Reines (class of 1939), in Physics, and Irving Langmuir (Chemistry faculty 1906-1909), in chemistry.

Krash is going to take the third Nobel Prize someday for this school. You just wait and see.

I doubt it, though it's something to shoot for.

Let me put it this way, I need to actually make money. I don't care about research; I'm going to have a family to take care of when I'm out of college. If it was to be just me, then maybe I'd think about getting a lower-paying research job somewhere, but since I'm going to get married I need to find a good job.

=]

Why are you in a hurry to get married?

Are you pregnant?

Just kidding.

[king arthur]

Sorry, bad joke.


;D

[king arthur]

When I graduated from the university, I wanted to get married too. Honest!

[krashlanmar]

I am getting married, though. To nadia =]

... after we graduate.

[king arthur]

Tell me about Nadia.

[king arthur]

She must be a great lady, she got Krash's heart.

When you meet the right person, it is right to be married.

Don't wait.

[krashlanmar]

She's cool.

She puts up with me; I can't ask for anything else. I know I'm a difficult person to be around all the time.

In fact, I know I'm a difficult person to sometimes talk to on a forum. I know I give you guys a hard time sometimes.

And for some reason I'm the only person she ever wants to be around all the time, so I guess I'm doing something right.

She's really pretty and she's cute and I love her.

And she listens to metal. Her dad does too; he's pretty cool too. Her mom's nice to me, also.

I think she'd blush if she read this.

EDIT: I'm not waiting, I'm making her commit and then I'm neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevvvvvvvveeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrr letting go.

[king arthur]

I am happy for you.

[king arthur]

Question for the Princess:

Can someone remote control my mouse in far distance?

How to get rid of them?