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Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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Richard Deeming wrote: t was decompiled rather than released as open-source
Apparently it's from a PDB file. That essentially contains the original full code.
Notwithstanding tools like .NET Reflector can revert C# apps back to original code as well. They'll have to run ngen to hide anything.
Presumably the "winner" had more important matters to deal with, so they gave them the PDB so they could debug anything that went wrong.
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I noticed the error messages are some weird moon man language.
Wow, that is messed up.
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MehGerbil wrote: I noticed the error messages are some weird moon man language.
Well, they are in a native language for app's users. To nie jest żaden język z księżyca.
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I can see that election is a tough process. It is tougher after voting.
TOMZ_KV
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Let's give the author a break, shall we: I am almost certain, given the code style, the author learned C# programming here on CP by using QA !
«If you search in Google for 'no-one ever got fired for buying IBM:' the top-hit is the Wikipedia article on 'Fear, uncertainty and doubt'» What does that tell you about sanity in these times?
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BillWoodruff wrote: I am almost certain, given the code style, the author learned C# programming here on CP by using QA !
But he/she had mistaken the answers with questions.
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That's really terrible code! oooh! my eyes! they hurt soo much... 
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Google/gmail recently sent me a message on my gtalk saying that it is no longer supported and that I should try hangouts. Now, I've been trying hangouts and although it seems trendy and all, I just can't seem to wean myself off gtalk.
Infact I noticed that gtalk is still in beta, which means I've been using it all this while in beta, and it's going out of support without having officially been "released"? This is funny and sad, if it works why fix it? Does this remind you of the murder of Windows XP by MS?
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Wrong forum.
"a place to post Coding Horrors, Worst Practices ... code that simply boggles the mind. Lazy kludges, embarrasing mistakes, horrid workarounds and developers just not quite getting it"
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Maybe it's weird that anyone used it?
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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I never used GTalk much, and don't use Hangouts much, so I've hardly noticed a difference when I do. Skype hasn't changed in yonks, and that's my main 'chat' line.
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eyesark wrote: if it works why fix it?
Because you cannot sell DOS anymore, even though it is not "broken".
eyesark wrote: Does this remind you of the murder of Windows XP by MS?
No, XP was out of beta.
..but do I read it correctly that you are still supporting all of your software that has not "broken"?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Hangouts is the release version of Google Talk - renamed and 2.0.
That's all.
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The next big thing will be drag n drop language. You build the language using old flowchart symbols that you build your skeliton with then just add the properties. Nice and simple ...
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You should check out the macro editor for Project Spark (Xbox game) - it is exactly what you describe.
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Mac DB from the 80s - Double Helix II.
Been there, done that. I was one of the authors.
According to my calculations, I should be able to retire about 5 years after I die.
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Probably not the best forum.
You remind me of a concept whose name I can never remember -- something like "rational programming" -- that ultimately falls down because it fails to take human nature into account. The main shortcoming is that some developers (me, for example) don't always use good meaningful names for things.
The second shortcoming was that, although applications could be written with high-level constructs, someone still had to write those constructs in a lower-level language -- and provide meaningful names and reasonable interfaces.
In fact, a few years back I spent a year having to develop applications in a rule-based environment that was like that. 
Edit: And SSIS is kinda like that too.
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So whose going to write the code behind those little symbols and in what language?
No, it's not going to be the next big thing. It'll be a niche market.
Seriously, can you imaging "writing" a large business application using a language like that?
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: a large business application using a language like that?
Oh, I don't know... MULTIPLY Quantity BY UnitPrice YIELDING LineItemCost seems familiar. 
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I was referring to more of the graphic image of drag and drop code taking up a ton of space on screen instead of the more compact text version.
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That seems to be the universal reason why text still is dominant. It is difficult (at best) to build an environment that at least encourages breaking algorithms into small pieces so as to be easy to manipulate. Also, it is desirable to be able to arrange graphics to avoid crossing lines - which is a fiendish problem in the general case.
According to my calculations, I should be able to retire about 5 years after I die.
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: Seriously, can you imaging "writing" a large business application using a language like that?
I actually think that would be fantastic. Obviously, it has "real code" in the background, but why not build a business app (of any scale) with a visual way of wiring together modular components, custom behaviors, etc.? But even that, in my thinking is "old school" - which is why I'm so fascinated by what the potential applications are for the open source project I'm working on in my spare time (see sig.)
Marc
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Remember the "3rd Generation Languages" from the 90s?
SqlWindows,PowerBuilder, etc?
They took a reasonable stab at doing exactly this. But they always ran up against exactly what you're talking about.
It turns out that the hard part is the hard part and that's actually what we do.
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Salesforce (which I have the dubious honor of having worked in the past week) is rather close to this. It's not so much drag-and-drop as it is click-and-click, but the point still stands. And they have an absolutely massive user base.
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