notfred's geeky trivia question of the day.

[notfred]

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: Skoorb
Ah, see in a windows programming context $ doesn't mean that!

hahaha, I'd love to hear your explaination of what $ means in "a windows programming context"

Many of the VB [that's Visual Basic - something that microsoft made - they also made windows, so I think this counts] functions that deal with strings come in two flavors - one that ends with a dollar sign ("$") and one that doesn't. An example is Left$ and Left. The function that ends with the dollar sign returns a variable of type String, whereas the other function (without the dollar sign) returns a variable of type Variant.

See? Just because $ means something to you doesn't mean it means the same thing to everyone else. So really your original question is somewhat meaningless.

Yeah, apparently "windows programming" to you means visual basic, and "windows programming" to me means visiual Basic, C, C++, java, perl, or any of the other languages for which there are compilers and interpreters on windows

And jsut cause you didn't know the answer to the question, doesn't mean it was meaningless. It was trivia, some peole (apparently very few) would know it, and some wouldn't. Everyone here typically uses the '$' character to represent money, but that doesn't mean the question was meaningless. We've shown at least three different uses for that character, just because there is more than one use for it doesn't mean that none of the uses count.

 

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And jsut cause you didn't know the answer to the question

If we want to get technical there was no right answer to the question, since by your own admittance $ can mean almost anything. In fact my first response where I took a go at it seems equally valid. And one can hardly claim that x$ is commonly known as any OS that ends in an x, since nobody in this thread specifically described it as such.

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: Skoorb

And jsut cause you didn't know the answer to the question

If we want to get technical there was no right answer to the question, since by your own admittance $ can mean almost anything. In fact my first response where I took a go at it seems equally valid. And one can hardly claim that x$ is commonly known as any OS that ends in an x, since nobody in this thread specifically described it as such.

There was a right answer, and I said it wasn't commonly known. As far as the general population is concerned, probably not more than 2% of them know what for(int i=1;i<var;i++){//execute something} would do, however, if I asked what it did, there would still be a right answer.

 

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Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: Skoorb

And jsut cause you didn't know the answer to the question

If we want to get technical there was no right answer to the question, since by your own admittance $ can mean almost anything. In fact my first response where I took a go at it seems equally valid. And one can hardly claim that x$ is commonly known as any OS that ends in an x, since nobody in this thread specifically described it as such.

There was a right answer, and I said it wasn't commonly known. As far as the general population is concerned, probably not more than 2% of them know what for(int i=1;i<var;i++){//execute something} would do, however, if I asked what it did, there would still be a right answer.

Indeed. And would you ask such a question with a

This one's pretty easy

knowing full well it isn't, so that when everybody gets it wrong you can give yourself a pat on the back for knowing such important tidbits?

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: Skoorb

And jsut cause you didn't know the answer to the question

If we want to get technical there was no right answer to the question, since by your own admittance $ can mean almost anything. In fact my first response where I took a go at it seems equally valid. And one can hardly claim that x$ is commonly known as any OS that ends in an x, since nobody in this thread specifically described it as such.

There was a right answer, and I said it wasn't commonly known. As far as the general population is concerned, probably not more than 2% of them know what for(int i=1;i<var;i++){//execute something} would do, however, if I asked what it did, there would still be a right answer.

Indeed. And would you ask such a question with a

This one's pretty easy

knowing full well it isn't, so that when everybody gets it wrong you can give yourself a pat on the back for knowing such important tidbits?

Ok, I thought it would be easy for some of the people on here that I know are familiar with regular expressions. I'm not trying to pat myself on the back, it's just a damn trivia question.

Anyway, you answered, my mom, your mom, my dad, windows xp (which had already been posted) and windows 98 before you even tried to post a real answer. 5 strikes and you're out, you missed the question

 

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I thought maybe the second try at windows xp would do it!