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Paul DiLascia


Paul DiLascia is editor of the Microsoft Systems Journal column C/C++ Q+A He died the night of September 3rd, 2008.
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...I hate typing... (1993/6)
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If you're totally confused, don't worry, it means your brain is functioning normally.
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...a fate I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy...




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That's no fun.
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..flibbertiwidgets are free...
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If this code works, it was written by Paul DiLascia. If not, I don't know who wrote it
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What are you doing, anyway? Writing code for IBM? (1996/1)
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...this baroque language...
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...[some code] looks disgusting, but that's life. (1993/6)
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But hey, I only work here. Besides, it works. (1995/6)
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...perhaps this is a "feature", not a bug....




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We've use a number of different adjectives to describe Span, but "cool" has never been one of them.
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That's left as an exercise for the reader.
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...your 90MHz Pentium won't have any trouble doing arithmetic (except for certain divisions).
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Does that remind you of anything? No? Give up?
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..I'll be laughing when I'm old and and all my programmer friends have gone alexic from staring at too many tiny pixels
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Pretty simple. Except for one little problem: it doesn't work! (various)
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I was once hired to develop a Windows-based chemistry library for a company that builds reactors that burn toxic metal waste into harmless substances (really). (1993/11)
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Like I said, you're damned either way. (1993/10)
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Everything is hunky-dory and your program works fine.


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