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Hi Steve,

stevepoole wrote:We have decided that JavaScript is such a convenient language for cross-platform use, that we will not give up on it yet !

This is the joy of personal choice, your choices are different, probably, to everyone else's. I'm not asking you to give up on JavaScript, as I've said always, you pick the best language for the job, that you are confident with. (That's "you" in the general term, not you specifically! )

stevepoole wrote:If we can work around the recent browser limitations, I shall report back.
I don't think the language developers will have shot themselves in their own feet !

It wouldn't be the first time that developers have done that. At least with C++ you can instantiate numerous "feet" objects, and shoot yourself in every one of them!

Cheers,
Norm.

NormanDunbar wrote:At least with C++ you can instantiate numerous "feet" objects, and shoot yourself in every one of them!

Hmm, I thought I was being original with that little joke, it turns out I wasn't. I took the liberty of Googling "programming languages "shooting yourself in the foot" and got a number of hits, then best one being http://www.toodarkpark.org/computers/hu ... -foot.html.

Enjoy.

Cheers,
Norm.

NormanDunbar wrote:

NormanDunbar wrote:At least with C++ you can instantiate numerous "feet" objects, and shoot yourself in every one of them!

Hmm, I thought I was being original with that little joke, it turns out I wasn't. I took the liberty of Googling "programming languages "shooting yourself in the foot" and got a number of hits, then best one being http://www.toodarkpark.org/computers/hu ... -foot.html.

Enjoy.

Cheers,
Norm.

Enjoy? I nearly fell off my chair laughing.

And shot everything but my foot in the process

Hi Dilwyn,

the "unix" one was the best one for me. It's subtle, very subtle, and I've done it myself!

Cheers,
Norm.

NormanDunbar wrote:Hi Dilwyn,

the "unix" one was the best one for me. It's subtle, very subtle, and I've done it myself!

Cheers,
Norm.

He he. A bit like tinkering with these IRC commands, modes etc - I feel like I'm managing to shoot between each toe at the moment, missing the foot initially, but gradually shooting the floor out from under me as the bullets create an outline of my foot. That's how I eventually lose my foot...

NormanDunbar wrote:Hi Dilwyn,

the "unix" one was the best one for me. It's subtle, very subtle, and I've done it myself!

I once managed to delete all home directories on a unix system when I just wanted to delete hidden files in my home directory.

I entered 'rm .*'. As root

Fortunately it was only a training environment...

Jan

Hi Jan,

in my case it was being told to "delete all those old versions of Oracle that we don't use."

I wrote a script to:
After it had taken what I considered "too long" I CTRL-C'd it. Yup, there was a space between '/' and '*' OOPS! I'd deleted a couple of in use Oracle homes as well.

You live and learn.

Cheers,
Norm.

NormanDunbar wrote:Hi Jan,

in my case it was being told to "delete all those old versions of Oracle that we don't use."

I wrote a script to:

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cd <where ALL oracle homes live>
rm -Rf old_oracle_home_name/ *

After it had taken what I considered "too long" I CTRL-C'd it. Yup, there was a space between '/' and '*' OOPS! I'd deleted a couple of in use Oracle homes as well.

You live and learn.

Cheers,
Norm.

You mean... a bit like using WDDEL (Qubide extensions) instead of WDEL to delete files from my Qubide a few years ago. Didn't spot the typo with double-D. Took a while to restore the backups and I was slightly less than happy

At least you had a backup to restore! Maybe even a WinBack backup!

Cheers,
Norm.

NormanDunbar wrote:At least you had a backup to restore! Maybe even a WinBack backup!

Which reminds me of the days of Atari SMSQ/E and its native WIN (MEGAfile 30...). I made a backup with Jonathan Hudson's TAR backup program, spread over 19 disks.

At least I have got a WIN error on the SMSQ partition (not the first one...), so made a new FORMAT and started the backup program, unfortunately, disk 12 genarates an error and so the complete backup was lost, including a 30+ pages T91 doc from my wife. She was "not amused".....