[tcaudilllg]

C's native standard string library is HORRID. Ancient. Outdated.

C doesn't have all of the nifty extras of C++, right? And we're making this version, at least, for C.

String libraries, anyone?

[RuneLancer]

Allow me to wonder out loud why you're even doing this in C when it's been stated, directly in response to one of your posts in fact, in another thread that C++ is a far better solution nowadays.

Just... y'know, putting it out there... Not that your monumental ego would allow for anyone to tell you "lol you made a wrong decision" and to reply "yeah, lol, I did, gonna change that..."

Edit: For that matter, who's "we"? You got ditched by DevX and I don't really see anyone too eager to help you out here.
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[DeveloperX]

Tony's picture can be seen on his livejournal page:

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My picture can be seen here:

http://ccps.rpgdx.net/members/richard/

I'll post some pictures of me at CompUSA sometime this week ~ to show you that what I've been saying is, indeed true.
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[DeveloperX]

I don't know what the shit you're talking about Tony.

Me..The Devil? Ahahahahahaha.
You're Fucking hilarious.

I am a Roman Catholic.
I goto Mass on Sundays, and I pray nightly with my fiance.

Oh, and stop sending me messages via PM.
I AM NOT WORKING ON WORLDYNE ANYMORE. PERIOD.

Worldyne is nolonger. I have better things to do in my life.
I now have the time to work on my GBA development more than ever, so thats one thing that I will be doing.
Other things include teaching my friend; Thomas, how to program.

So, go your own way now, and leave me alone.
Nothing you can say is going to fix this friendship. You fucked up big. And you continue to act like nothing happened.

"Whatever...sorry" is NOT an apology. You OBVIOUSLY were NEVER my friend, only USING me to accomplish YOUR goal.
So, FUCK YOU.
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[Mark_Y]

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[RuneLancer]

[Mark_Y]

So I reflected a bit about DevX and LG and came to the following conclusions. They are apparently adults. They either engage in extremely convoluted charades to annoy the rest of us, or they really are the way they seem to be.

If they are simply clowns or trolls, it's not worth engaging in ugly ridicule to tear them down, since such ugliness is simply the sort of reaction they mean to draw.

If they are not trolls, the question is how to respond to their behavior. At their ages, they're past the point of being talked down to, and past the point where they can learn life's lessons by being lectured. To the extent they'll ever grow into something better, it will be by dint of experience and observation, not because we tell them -- however forcefully, eloquently, truthfully, or snarkily -- the way they should behave. My feelings on both their characters have been well aired (although now removed); evidently, I think they have a lot of growing up, even if they've passed the point where they should already be acting like men, not moronic high schoolers.

In any event, trying to make them miserable about the few things that give them pleasures -- as delusional as these things may be -- seems like a rather unlikely way to help them grow up. Assuming that DevX's extreme improbable stories are true, I suppose he deserves pity, not scorn. And if they are false, he hardly needs me to tell him so. Liars know the truth. LG's claims are a bit more complicated, since they aren't fact statements that he knows to be false (if they are), but rather opinions that cannot be easily disproven (no matter how much we try). But reading his diary entries convinced me that no matter how much he blusters here, LG is well aware of his own limitations. Whether he works to overcome them, or panders to them in an ever tightening gyre, is something he's going to have to figure out on his own.

Most of all, it struck me that back when I was in high school, the Internet provided an outlet for a lot of things, including the possibility of dreaming big, foolishly big, and talking like I could actually realize those dreams. LG and DevX may be older, but it's pretty obvious the Net plays that same role for them. I don't think RPGDX has to be a host to them, but my project of trying to crush those dreams seems, upon reflection, somewhat misguided.

So. Take this as an armistice, if not an apology: I'm going to bite my tongue (my fingers?) and not post any more on this subject, no matter how tempting it may be.

[janus]

I'm starting to wonder if RPGDX's apparent no-bans-ever policy is a good one.

[DrunkenCoder]

[quote="LordGalbalan"]Here's the progress so far. Yes, it's completely open to critique. C is not my native language.
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That's probably some of the most moronic pseudo-c I've seen in a long time. strlen and strcat are in the standard use them.

* learn what "const" mean"
* man malloc/free

Other than that your development strategy is totally backwards from what is considred bestpractice and for larger systems will only lead to headaches.

My advice:
Switch to C++ and use std::string.
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[LeoDraco]

Any misanthropy on my part guided towards Galbalan is, obviously, a bit out of line, as well as, perhaps, out of the spirit of the community. While I will not deny any, er, disparaging comments directed at Galbalan, I mostly just suggest alternatives to what appears to be ignorance of good programming practices.

I don't want to beat a dead horse any more than anyone else; however saying, something must be said about that string implementation.

As I have stated in the past, Galbalan, perhaps the most applicable domain for OOPLs is that belonging to types; strings are types, and, as such, are perfectly implementable in an OOPL. C++ has, at the very least, two different string implementations available with most compilers that implement the STL: basic_strings and ropes. While, as the information for the basic_string will tell, the complexity of a compiler's implemenation is not guaranteed; however, they will, more than likely, be more efficient --- both in space and in time --- than what you have thrown together. I think you should seriously consider, if you really want to go ahead with this project, changing the language of your port, and, again, to consider using items from the STL.

In any event, as a simple search on google will show, it is very easy to find references to different C string libraries. For instance, a comparison page about a set of libraries, some of which are for regular C. Perhaps you should try researching in the future?
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[janus]

I'd also like to point out that the primary reason the C string library 'sucks' is that it's written in/for C, not because it's old. Your code isn't any better (it's undoubtedly worse, in fact.)

For example, your concat() calls lengthOf twice on each string. That's pretty dumb. Additionally, your join() uses a fixed length array and never checks to see if it's overrun the length of the array. What is this, 1983?

Also, considering that C doesn't have namespaces or anything, using generic names like 'join' and 'concat' for STRING-ONLY functions is pretty retarded. We're talking 'Hi, I'm Visual Basic and names like Line are reserved keywords!' retarded here.

Also, not checking pointers before performing copies and pointer accesses is also pretty retarded. The C stdlib gets away with it because it's traditional and 'faster', but if you're writing modern code, you really should at least be assert()ing for bad pointers, if not erroring out/failing entirely.

And finally, ever heard of a naming scheme? Maybe you should try it out. It makes your code less ugly.

[Rainer Deyke]

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