1068: Swiftkey
| Swiftkey |
 Title text: Although the Markov chain-style text model is still rudimentary; it recently gave me "Massachusetts Institute of America". Although I have to admit it sounds prestigious. |
Damn Raptors, you'd think somebody would get away with using on liltte simple goto. I guess ya never had the pleasure or frustration of trying to debug a carefully crafted buggy ass piece of spaghetti code then. Or even worse trying to figure out how ya going to add some new feature or function to such a monstrosity. hahaI'm a liltte older than you well alot maybe but anyway i had a professor in college let's call him Ray (i'll save him the embarrassment of revealing his last name) who was totally and completely opposed to the whole structured programming movement. he used to rant and rave about it in class writing code full of clever and completely tangled ass logic. He should've been a as much as he liked spaghetti but he was alas a catholic which i thought was very odd then. I liked Ray he had these wild parities once a year at his house and invited everyone in his classes and more. I wasn't much into the Alcohol gods but the prospects of drunk girls now that another story . But needless to say me and my friends would crash his party and we were between animal house and Hunter S Thompson yep that was great fun he'd be drunk and everything would be completely outta his control.Well anyway that's essentially the flaw with using gotos. One might not hurt and may even have a place now and then (even Stroustrup agrees) But like crack or lays potatoes chips one is seldom enough and before ya know it your life's a mess and your code is completely outta your control.One of my first computers was a , a great liltte machine for hobbyist based around a Zilog Z80A microprocessor. It would actually outperform an Apple II or a popular at the same time. The operating system was basically a but it completely lacked If Then else while and do statements as well as any kind of case statements or On gosub. One had to do all that with gotos or gosub or else a bunch of If statements. Of course in the tradition of the time and due to the limitations of those machines one was forced to use machine code in critical places so it was easy for a complex program to turn into a complete mess. lmao.Since a logical expression evaluated as a number either 0 or 1 and could be used in an algebraic expression I took to crafting complex logical expressions and storing them in a string and simulating an On gosub with a GOSUB val$(A$), i also took to storing machine code in strings which was complicated by the fact string locations moved around in memory. And then to compound my own absurdity I would have my code alter what was stored in these strings as the need arose. hmmm worked great sometimes haha I wrote a 4 -d rubics cube program that way menu driven using a joystick in a mouse like way. But alas I tried to write a word processor and kept adding features to it. I was an electrical hobbyist then and had hooked my Sinclair up to a circuit i designed and then up to an dot matrix printer and my word processor turned into a complete mess after a year or two of me adding more and more features to it. I eventually scraped it and rewrote it from top to bottom paying close attention to like structure programming philosophies and data abstraction ( data hiding ) ideas. Then i started programming an ms dos machine and that was the end of my Sinclair days (apple ii days too).oh well a blast from my past. haha. Somehow tho I avoided the wrath of the raptors I always liked grape juice tho. hahaBTW I had to learn ALGOL 60 in college, ya mentioning Dijkstra reminded me of that one I didn't like it much. a0|a0
