JRRZZ blog

I have never seen anything like this before. While the world as awaiting it’s end as we know it due to a bird flu pandemic I’ve just started something that could become even worse. I really don’t know what this is. Imagine the common cold. You know, sneeze, cough and heavy breathing. Imagine sneezing blood. I’ve had quite some blood loss these last few weeks. A bloody nose once in a while, sleepless nights due to blood stuck up your nose and more of this stuff. Not to mention the constant fear of having a bloody nose in public. If the amount of blood lost was kept to a minimum I wouldn’t panic at all. But losing blood to the point of diziness isn’t healthy. I’ve had this one for almost four weeks now and I haven’t noticed any progress in my cure of this virus, infection or whatever. But the worst is still to come. The damn thing became airborne. Several collegues at work have had the same thing already. Bloody noses and the symptoms of a normal cold. At school a teacher called in sick after going home with a bloody piece of cloth pressed against his nose. What the hell is this? I’m going to visit a doctor soon, because I haven’t seen a doctor in six years and because I don’t think I can master this disease without medical attention. I’ve named this disease “Bloody Cold”. In Latin that would be ehh, “Nasopharyngitis Sanguina” I think. My Latin is a bit rusty, sorry about that. It’s not life threatening. But if you’ve got medication stopping your blood from filling up the wound you will be fcked. I’ve lost over a litre of blood this week I guess. Could be a bit less or a bit more. It was alot, that’s for sure. Anyway, if you’ve been in direct contact with me report to your local medical assistant and ask for further guidance. Don’t forget to mention the expensive Latin name. That way you’ll be taken serious a lot sooner.
You might have seen the ++ in the title? That’s because I’ve finished my project for school this week. We have made a fully functional traffic simulation. Entirely written in C++. Damn, I hate that language. Luckaly I was able to use regular C within the code and my code within the project was easily found. No classes, no psuedo types, no weird constructions, nu public, private and inheritance crap. Just C. The only bad luck I had was that we had to use Borland C++ Builder 6. This hideous piece of software can’t even understand the most simple example of if-clauses. It complained it would be always true. Sure. I won’t even begin about it’s code setup or it wanting to make everything into an object. Oh well, we have finished it and it seems to work. It’s in no way ANSI and above all not portable. Hooray for the educational system. But hey, the kids are learning C++. With a compiler telling them wrong from right that is. They never learn to check for themselves if there’s a memory leak or anything. They never learn how the memory allocation works within the operating system. Ok, luckaly they can actually write some code. But to get text from user input they only know how to call an object from some input field and getting well formatted text from it. They never learn to get to the basics. Don’t use the tool if you don’t know what the tool does in the first place! I’ve said this before and I will keep saying it. Ok, you don’t have to get this too broad. You don’t have to know the kernel source code if you want to use Linux. But you get my point. If a compiler trows an error you have to be able to understand why. And by beginning to program with a fully-fledged IDE like Borland’s you will never learn how to really write code. The basics are the most important. That’s why I began to write C in a terminal using a simple ascii editor (Yes, I’m a nano and ed user. I’m proud of it. Emacs and vi(m) are both not my style. Live with it.) and compiling it with GCC. Oh, and did I mention I hate classes? Structs are okay. Real usable types like your regular char. You can sizeof, fwrite an do alot with them. But some people didn’t understand and thought it would be fun to include functions in a struct and call it a class. Oh, and while we’re at it we’ll throw in some access rights and difficult inheretance rules. Sure, like we all have plenty of RAM. Whoops, we’ve broken the original type definition. You know what? It’s not a bug, it’s a feature! It’s called an object! And all the lazy programmers started to use objects because it was trendy and all the managers liked the OOP buzzword. They never thought about the consequences. The code becomes unreadable, hard to manage and a mess. Yes, now you need an IDE to manage all these objects. Hey, my simple hello world application has become 300K! I’m sure it was only en few hundred bytes the last time I checked. Now I can’t run it on my Sinclair anymore! Oh well, who uses old hardware anyway these days? And now you know why Vista needs 1GB of RAM to boot.

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