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I would sure be interested in compiling a list of all the undocumented stuff
in Easy Language. Some of the good stuff, in addition to what Brian has
mentioned:
If LastBarOnChart - detects whether this is the last bar
FileDelete("c:\data\xyz.txt")
FileAppend - appends ASCII data to a file
I don't believe any of these are in the Omega printed or on-line
documentation. Anyone have any more to add?
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Massey <bnm03@xxxxxxx>
To: List, Omega <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: November 13, 1998 5:46 AM
Subject: RE: Easy Language Documentation?
Pierre wrote in response to Mark Brown:
"If anyone has a secret book on EL , please let me know, but I seriously
doubt
that anything like this has been produced. Maybe some internal help paper
for
a basic support inside the company, I cant say."
Ok, you're in detention mister. Class isn't dismissed. Once again you stay
true to form and have missed a vital fact about Extremely-Lame Language.
There's a poop load of undocumented commands in EL that Omega has not taken
the time document. I keep running into them over the years but the ones that
come immdiately to mind are the Not only is what documentation that does
exist a joke (which is why you have so many on this list clamoring for EL
lessons but unable to distnguish a good lesson from a bad one) -- and this
is about the 6th revision of the TS Extremely-Lame Language manual -- but
much of the added functionality
#BeginAlert
#End
#BeginCmtry
AtCommentaryBar
No explanation about Strings or how to handle them (ie Concatenation). If
you're a seasoned basic programmer -- no sweat you already know this.
No explanation about using plot arrays (as in ADX) ex. plot1 > plot1[1].
What the hell's this? Where is this in the book?
This is just what I could dredge up in the 3 minutes it took to write this
but is INDICATIVE OF THE CRAP AND FRUSTRATION I'VE EXPERIENCED OVER THE
YEARS CODING IN THIS EXTREMELY-LAME LANGUAGE.
The King (we know the king!),
Brian.
-----Original Message-----
From: Orphelin@xxxxxxx [mailto:Orphelin@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, November 13, 1998 3:57 AM
To: Omega-list
Subject: Re: Easy Language Documentation?
Dans un courrier daté du 13/11/98 05:05:10 Heure d5iver Pari10 Madrid,
markbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx a écrit :
(snip)
> Bill Cruz in a
> effort to shut me up promised me that he would release the same
> documentation that he has allowed ex employees and fighting allies to
have.
> It was to be published as a book and sent out more than two years ago. I
> was silent and even complementary some years ago between the AOL days...
(resnip)
I never received any hidden documentation from Omega, with the exception of
EL user maual provided with the software.
All of what I have learned was by myself and by thinking twice when
necessary
and experiencing when I had a doubt on the proper use of the language.
If anyone has a secret book on EL , please let me know, but I seriously
doubt
that anything like this has been produced. Maybe some internal help paper
for
a basic support inside the company, I cant say.
Writing an EL programming is maybe a good idea, but I have no free time to
do
this.
What people need to knwo is to learn how toverify by experience when they ae
not sure of what the write when coding.
It's more a state of mind rather than knwoledge, and maybe my 15 years of
Physical and chemistry background teaching ( an fixing thousands of errors
yearly produced by my students) make me better at this game.
It's difficult to teach experience in a book...
Sincerely,
Pierre Orphelin
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