-10^2 (OT)

[davidsyes]

I remember: "M-5, prove that your Prime Directive is NOT your Prime Directive" 
leading to "This... unit... must... fail...." (music: 
dew-dew...dew-dew-dew-dew..)

and..

I remember Xmas... heh, heh (humor break)

But, seriously I had to look up BODMAS & BEDMAS

http://westview.tdsb.on.ca/Mathematics/O.html

(I like the part about the calculator...)

..as I am not but a developing developer... (NoBuADevDev) (I coined it first!) 
and I never heard of BODMAS or BEDMAS. I remember FOIL (First Outer Inner 
Last) and the fun we had fooling around with LOIF and FLOI....

For the main serious part I am trying to get a MySql data table to appear on a 
stack or card (not stack of cards..) but the app likes to "blow up" after I 
doubleclick quickly on the "database" attributes.

Is it at all possible that the next rev of runrev will include a "fuzzy 
datasource dectection" (FDSD)? It would (from my newbie perspective) make it 
easier to "wire in" data whether it be ODBC, MySQL, CSV/Text, etc. I find 
some very cool features in RunRev, and I hope to do mostly database stuff. 

I ran a quick & dirty app development with only one stack, a 3-panel tabbed 
button, and a widged for a table field, saved it, and ran it on my Mandrake 
Linux box. I was impressed with the ability to create standalone apps. (Being 
primarily Linux but still w98+ open, I did a quick run for win98, but it 
required some downloads which I did't pursue, so I suspect that was the 
failure reason for w98 se.)

My next question is, since I am doing database work, where do I obtain 
charting and cross-tab tools? I want to enable my future end users to use my 
apps on Laptops/Desktops on or off line as well as enable PDA users to run 
queries and see chart results on a PDA. Charts will be critical/essential, 
even though they'll be small on a PDA.

I am coming from Lotus Approach land, so you can imagine (if you've seen 
Approach and is's insanely simple import/server connect front end) that I 
will have an incredibly steep learning curve, having relied upon Approach for 
so many years. But, I am not a Domino/Notes fan/user, and I desperately want 
to port or rebuild my Lotus Approach stuff to standalone, runtimes of 
usefulness. IBM/Lotus are firm on not updating SmartSuite nor Approach, and 
Approach never had runtime creation abilities to begin with.. 

The tables will contain 350 records/rows and some 40 columns in one table, and 
some 400 records and maybe 50 or fewer colunns in another. If it helps I will 
like to alias or self-join the tables to keep a low count of joins that might 
break or wreck the whole thing if one is damaged. Smaller but to be joined 
later tables willl come into play.

Sorry for the length.

Kind Regards,

David Syes

David Syes




On Wednesday 21 May 2003 19:12, David Squance wrote:
> >Maybe the larger question is:  Is there a standard order for operator
> >precedence, and if so why so much variation?
>
> There is from a mathematician's point of view.  What happened to all you
> guys' high school math?
> Weren't you all taught BODMAS (or BEDMAS)?  You can't be any older than I
> am, so your memory shouldn't be the issue.  Of course I taught math for
> nearly 30 years.  Helps keep the memory fresh.  I agree with Tom.  -10^2
> should always give you -100.  Don't expect MS to get it right.
> Dave
>
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