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02-19-09, 08:53 PM   #2766
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Originally Posted by Silenia View Post
lol Scott. Please forgive me while I play devils advocate here. I kinda understand what ppl mean when they say they do not understand code. It's similar to the conversation I recently had with my boyfriend about this While Loop thing in Small Basic (something I am playing with atm, even though it makes no sense to me.. yet).

After explaining the while loop;

Grimdore: I don't understand why you don't get it.
SilverRaven: I don't understand why you don't understand why I don't get it.


As a programmer, that code looks soooo simplistic to you. But for a non programmer, its all random numbers, signs, and letters in a file. Very scary! lol

I can see both sides... it just doesn't seem a stretch to me to say if you want the button to be bigger, then change the value of of the thing that says "btn_size" to something bigger. Not exactly rocket science. ~smile~ However, I do understand the fear issue in play there, which is why I realize I have to make a spin thing and a drag thing you can click with a mouse button to make the button get bigger, etc, without having to be bright enough to know the thing called "btn_size" might be the thing that makes the button bigger ~wink~

(I am playing a lot in the paragraph by the way)

On a separate note, you remind me of one of the best pieces of programming documentation I have seen in my 30 year career... it was in the glossary of terms in the old dBase II manual. Under the glossary entry to "endless loop" it said "see: loop, endless" -- look up "loop, endless" in the glossary and it said "see: endless loop"

Makes me laugh every time I remember it.

edit: here's a simple program...

while "Silverraven" != "I get it" do
Grimdore.print( "Why not?" );
end
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