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Re:Nobody ever got fired for using a struct on Thursday March 05, 2026 @10:57PM (#47270676)
I’m working on migrating an IBM Maximo database from the late 90s to a SQL Server deployment on my current project. Also charged with updating the schema to a more maintainable and extensible design. Manufacturing and refurbishing domain - 200+ column tables is the norm. Very demoralizing.
Why are all of your posts just copy-pasted ChatGPT conversations about lightbulbs?
Re:.NET 10 on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @06:11AM (#45898753)
Microsoft is still supporting VB.NET, Windows Forms/WPF, and to a lesser extent VBA. I doubt F# is going away anytime soon.
Re:The Two Factions of C++ on Monday November 25, 2024 @08:11PM (#42241694)
As someone without a lot of experience (in my first dev job now), would you care to expand on this? Does this mean that you wouldn’t have a function fn() that manipulates a global variable VAR, but rather you’d pass VAR like fn(VAR)?