User talk:Mrquick

Hello and welcome! Is Programming:Perl going to be chapter in the Programming textbook? If not then a link to the Wikipedia article on the Perl programming language article would be best - the last thing we want to do is recreate Wikipedia here! :-) --Maveric149 09:16 22 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Welcome! It will be as soon as someone who knows Perl (not me) decides to write it. Until that though, a link to Wikipedia would be acceptable; not a replacement though because a textbook is written differently than an encyclopedia. --Josh


 * Ah - I see now. Good everything is self-contained within the single book - that's what I like to see. Oh and you could use the Wikipedia article to start such a chapter: just make sure to say "From Wikipedia" in the edit summary - a mention on the "Authors page" would also be nice (doing both of those combined with the fact that we are all part of the Wikimedia family should be good enough for the GFDL...). --mav

Re: programmingc:ch1_cpp (an impossible name to remember, btw) Are you using an automated HTML syntax coloring program? I do not like the colors appearing in the main text (not the programs); you shouldn't include that text in your syntax-colorer input.

Also, the namespace problem can be fixed by leaving out the .h from iostream. Only in ancient (nonstandard) compilers does not exist (as opposed to ), and in all -compatible compilers the file's contents are in std. If a compiler does not support the non-h syntax (and the other thirty-odd standard headers), it's not a good one to learn from. Geoffrey 03:50 28 Jul 2003 (UTC)

I'll try that namespace thing... Yeah, that colored thing isn't that good. I wrote something myself to do the conversion, having things colored in the text didn't bother me, as long as it was actually a command (but if the consensus is not to do it, I won't). That "do" thing, I don't know why its not working? Take, "if", and "while", they don't just turn blue in the text, my program searches for the accompaying paranthesis, but for some reason it won't do that for "do". I can't figure out why... Its probably due to some weird mistake I made when I programmed the parser at ultra high speed... so I'm writing a new parser... Mrquick 18:09 28 Jul 2003 (UTC)

I just wanted to call you attention to a discussion I hope I've started at the staff lounge regarding namespaces. No disrespect, but I'm recommending against your approach, and I think we ought to keep a record of the our reasoning, so the Lounge archive will do it. LouI 18:10 1 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Is there some way I can or an admin have the server email me my password now, instead of waiting for I think a half of a month. I kind of forgot what it was :(. Josh

Lucky me, I figured it out, I didn't see the email myself a new password button. Mrquick 05:00, 15 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Hello :) Nice work in restructuring Computer programming, but I disliked your choice of the suffix "in programming", as it was very cumbersome for other titles.

By the way, if you've been active at the Wikipedia, the same syntax works here too. To create a tab indent, write a :, to create bullets, use successive * s, if you have an article in the form Namespace:Article, you can just write Namespace:Article and it'll show up without the Namespace: part. Leaving a space as the first character of the line forces the rest of the line to be in fixed-width font, perfect for code.

Thanks :) Dysprosia 09:55, 20 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Hello, It seems I've dissappeared for a bit. I just went off to college and the local college ethernet is down. After one day viruses killed it. Not fun. I should become active again as soon as I have a permanent, or semi-permanent, internet solution. Josh