what do you guys have more of?

[foforackard]

Private messages or posts? Just wonderin.

[Hazmat]

3,578 Posts and 2 PM's. :D

[Goats_On_Unicycles]

6,437 posts and 751 PMs

[uni57]

I have way more posts than PMs. I talk a lot but people don't seem to like me, so I only have 247 PMs.

[monkeyman]

8446 posts and 790 PMs.

[Goats_On_Unicycles]

8446 posts and 790 PMs.
You beat me. :(

[dudewithasock]

Waaay more posts.

[harper]

I have way more posts than PMs. I talk a lot but people don't seem to like me, so I only have 247 PMs.

Poor Dave. I recommend that we inundate him with personal messages. Each one should contain the word awesome and at least one emoticon. Let's show Dave in this way that we like him...we really like him. Then maybe he'll pull over and let us get by him on the road.

[monkeyman]

You beat me. :(

I believe that it's harper who's known for pointing out how number doesn't mean quality. Meaning, I posted a lot of stupid crap when I first signed up.

but....i grew up

Poor Dave. I recommend that we inundate him with personal messages. Each one should contain the word awesome and at least one emoticon. Let's show Dave in this way that we like him...we really like him. Then maybe he'll pull over and let us get by him on the road.

Hahaha I just sent him one with the word awesome in it. And I almost credited you with the word.

[Hazmat]

I have way more posts than PMs. I talk a lot but people don't seem to like me, so I only have 247 PMs.
I like you (as a friend though). :D

[dudewithasock]

Poor Dave. I recommend that we inundate him with personal messages. Each one should contain the word awesome and at least one emoticon. Let's show Dave in this way that we like him...we really like him. Then maybe he'll pull over and let us get by him on the road.

Done.

[Goats_On_Unicycles]

Poor Dave. I recommend that we inundate him with personal messages. Each one should contain the word awesome and at least one emoticon. Let's show Dave in this way that we like him...we really like him. Then maybe he'll pull over and let us get by him on the road.
That would be mean...
Gah... emoticons... *shudders*
EDIT: I just sent him a PM with five sunglasses emoticon thingys in it.

[wickedbob]

I sit fire hot hot fire....3408 posts and a couple pms like 3 or 4.

[john_childs]

I have 917 PMs. I should delete them but I'm lazy.
I also seem to have started 203 threads.

I feel like threadjacking because this seems to be the prefect thread for it.
IMPLICIT INTEGER (I-N)
(for all you kids out there... that's FORTRAN)

Yeah, I know that's FORTRAN. But if you want to be old school you would indent the statement properly and start on column 7. :)

That statement is also redundant since FORTRAN already by default assumes that any variable I-N is an INTEGER. Maybe that's why you find it sig worthy.

Now for a question. I've been wondering for a while if FORTRAN is what started the convention that variables named i, j, k and less commonly l, m, n are used as integer loop variables. Were variables i, j, k (or I, J, K) common convention for integer loop variables before FORTRAN?

[foforackard]

291 pm's and 280 posts

[TheObieOne3226]

wayyyy more pms

[forrestunifreak]

Wow some peoploe seem to have a lot of PM's..... I have 794.




Edit: I don't believe Obie.... :p

[dudewithasock]

I only have 137.

[Goats_On_Unicycles]

Dosn't Justin have something aroung 1,500 Pm's??

[MuniAddict]

1,598 pm's, 2,427 posts. Actually a lot more pm's than that, but many were deleted.

[TheObieOne3226]

I used PM's a lot before, but only have 10 total this calendar year.

[uni57]

Do people talk a lot via PM? As a substitute for email? BillyTheMountain PMs me a lot. Sometimes I don't even understand what he is saying.

I'm realizing how many awesome people are on the forums that I don't really know. PM me and say hello! And Billy, please, just leave me alone! :)

[captainkrunk61]

I only have 80 pms

[uni57]

Yeah, I know that's FORTRAN. But if you want to be old school you would indent the statement properly and start on column 7. :)

That statement is also redundant since FORTRAN already by default assumes that any variable I-N is an INTEGER. Maybe that's why you find it sig worthy.

Now for a question. I've been wondering for a while if FORTRAN is what started the convention that variables named i, j, k and less commonly l, m, n are used as integer loop variables. Were variables i, j, k (or I, J, K) common convention for integer loop variables before FORTRAN?You can't indent on the forums. Maybe you are thinking of punched cards? Does Gilby have a card reader (http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/701/701_1415bx11.html)? I amost put "Do you know why the statement is redundant?" -- but left it out for brevity. Yes, the statement defines that which is already the default.

I, too, assumed that the common convention of using i, j, k as loop variables

for ( int i=0; i < 10; i++ )

was because of FORTRAN. But it never occurred to me that maybe FORTRAN embraced a pre-existing convention.

Hmmm.....

FORTRAN was basically the first high-level language. There were "automatic coding systems" before that -- thing that "wrote" the assembler program for you, based on a higher-level specification). I don't know enough about the stuff that came before FORTRAN to know whether variable names were used. They don't look like languages as we know them today.

I'll check out History of Programming Languages (http://www.amazon.com/History-Programming-Languages-Acm-Monograph/dp/0127450408) (again) from the local university. Maybe I can find a clue. I'm very interested in the early days of computers and computer programming. You should find that book in a library. It was published in 1981, from the transcripts of a 1978 ACM SIGPLAN conference. That was back when most of the early pioneers (like Grace Hopper) were still around. I attended a lecture by Admiral Grace Hopper (then Commorode) in 1983.

[uni57]

Poor Dave. I recommend that we inundate him with personal messages. Each one should contain the word awesome and at least one emoticon. Let's show Dave in this way that we like him...we really like him. Then maybe he'll pull over and let us get by him on the road.Oh, my God. This explains the PMs. I got and replied to a bunch of PMs, but hadn't seen this until now.

I know that people more or less like me here. Even maestro8! But please keep the PMs coming. I want to get to know EVERYBODY! That would be AWESOME!

But I'll never get out of the way.

[thejdw]

pm 142: 2,711 posts

[steveyo]

1751 posts, 561 PMs