Re: Are _T() and TEXT() macros equivalent?

Yikes, that explains a lot. FORTRAN was the first language I learned; on IBM mainframe and I learned from a book called the FORTRAN Coloring Book (Roger Kaufman) (I still have it and it was a fun read). I made a lot of my early carrier off of programming FORTRAN and COBOL and other "all caps" languages before I got into clever one's like C (comes after B) and C++ (should be obvious).

Tom

"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ihjq135trkmdn13si0hmnj109df901s2u6@xxxxxxxxxx
We used to say "You can write a bad FORTRAN program in any language".

I found the corollary can also be true: you can write a good program even in assembly
code, if you have the right development patterns.
joe

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 06:51:17 -0700, "Tom Serface" <tom.nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Back when Visual Basic first came out I heard people say words like "Visual
Basic allows bad programmers to create more bad programs a lot faster". Of
coruse Basic has come a long ways, but these days I'm not sure I see much
use for it since C# seems to be filling the same niche and has a cooler rep.

Tom

"MrAsm" <mrasm@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:16:11 GMT, MrAsm <mrasm@xxxxxxx> wrote:

development. I see also jobs for porting code to Visual Basic 6 to
C#/.NET.

correction: FROM Visual Basic 6 to...
Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP]
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