Late Thanksgiving Day Thank You...

[Pete]

Well, I didn't start coding again until after Thanksgiving, but the holiday is still close enough in my mind to say now that I am coding again, I'm thankful that QB64 doesn't have the ol' QB45 memory restrictions. I'm putting together a parser that can be used for parsing a variety of files. Depending on what's included, well there are 8 different outcomes with 12 cases each. In the old days, I would have to think about cases in common, and optimize the hell out of it to get it to fit into another large, near to the limit project. Now, I just cut and paste in each of the 8 outcome routines, and adjust one or two cases in each one. Lots of code, but that's OK. The simplicity beats trying to make a later adjustment in overlapping code, especially when it can no longer be overlapped, because of the new changes. Anyway... Thanks QB64!

Well, back to work. Since this type of coding is more tedious than stimulating, please someone remember to check in on me, in case I "parse" out.

Pete

Edit: Well, not so bad. 1500 lines and it looks like I'll be able to combine all 8 examples into one html sheet. So far, the automated markup looks a lot like the hand made markup. Yippee!

[Richard]

Pardon my ignorance...


I got the impression that thanksgiving day is on the 4th July as per reference :-


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[Pete]

Ah, well our USA 4th of July is the celebration of our 1776 "Declaration of Independence" from the late great Great Britain, while on the 4th Thursday in November, we Americans celebrate a day of thanks, apparently for the bounty of food we are blessed with in this country. Actually, historically it's considered a harvest festival, but whatever. Interestingly enough, both holidays have a "4th" involved but they occur in completely different seasons. Other differences is on one holiday we gives thanks by eating stuff we get, and on the other holiday we take pride in blowing stuff up.

In other news, I got that parser project completed. I'm pretty impressed I can still do this stuff in my advancing years. That also reminds me of another thing I'm thankful for, my marriage. I'd hate to be this old, and have to be cyber-dating. Truth be told, the last DOS computer I went out with was a real batch.... :O (We really need an ascii character for a face palm.)

Pete