I am not really a BlitzBasic user but I used it in the past, along with AMOS, Arexx, CanDO and maybe SuperBase PRO waaaaaay back in the before time.

I agree with your statement, I just wonder why you left BlitzBasic off the list.  I also like ACE Basic, Pure Basic, True Basic, F-Basic.

Either the operators should:
A: Not exist, since they are horribly buggy.
B: Exist, but trigger a syntax error any time you use them. :D

As for me I have always had a personal rule never to use ++ or -- in a complex statement so I never have the problem except when other ppl write code for me. 

I see that there are 86 services running on start up. Wow.

And no, you don't need to memory fetch/write, flags, et all to compute any computable function: only THREE instructions / constructs are needed.

For major information, get a (good) book on computability.

You left out TCL's last quote...

Team Chaos Leader wrote:

As for me I have always had a personal rule never to use ++ or -- in a complex statement so I never have the problem except when other ppl write code for me.

Complex statements in C usually involve functions with variables that are processed in an undefined order. I think a decision to not use ++ or -- in this case is an entirely safe and logical decision. I think it also shows some drawbacks of the C language.

Rest of my original comment:
 
  This is just the kind of bugs I frequently have to fix these days when bringing various old Amiga software up to date for modern compilers, along with lack of understanding of the guarantees C gives regarding type sizes, horrible endianness bugs (I build the software I clean up for both AROS and AmigaOS, and assumptions of endianness is the #1 problem) as well of confusing "&" and "&&" (which doesn't *always* matter, but can come back and bite you badly when it does), assignments and use without a sequence point in between, and more.
 
EDIT: Just to point out, I think people ought to learn assembly, but it's very important to also realize that being a good assembly programmer does not make you a good programmer in a high level language or vice versa. But if you know both, you'll be better at both...

Well, why is it that using Googls Chrome, there are videos off the internet, when they "play" all I see is a large green rectangle??? I can hear the audio, though. Same happens with Firefox Mozilla. And internet explorer downloads it and then plays it in some movie palyer (not windows media player) and I see a green rectangle.... Yeah, computers are NOT complicated.

edit- Google play video green rectangle
Came up with this: EXTERNAL LINK  And it questions vista, the "new and improved" OSs capabilities.

edit2 -
Apparently this has been a problem since 2007!!!
EXTERNAL LINK  And, the video card makers who spend MILLIONS of dollars producing new video cards EPIC FAILED in testing their equipment, NOT NOTICING that videos DO NOT play on their new 3 times faster cards!

Q. When is a video card NOT a video card?
A. When it's "new and improved".

Okay, I know that you aren't going to believe this, but I can't find that option I de-check marked to change it back.... and I need to as now Youtube videos will NOT play in full screen mode, or rather, the SOUND plays but the screen is completely black, no borders, nothing on the screen at all.
 
  Okay, found it, "Windows media video acceleration", checked it, now it works in full screen mode. Also found that, when not checked, the video plays back a bit choppy.

edit, it was a GENUINE xp dvd that I used with a valid key, it just isn't MY DVD.

edit2- Funny how after installing win-doze xp, you need to go on the internet and install NEARLY 1 GIGABYTE of SW for it to be "ready for business"!

And how much good do you think the video drivers will do when you personally have turned off the video acceleration?

Oh and "msconfig startup" has NO WAY to turn off "windows messenger" from starting at boot up. I always have to turn it off manually. I checked every single entry under every single option and "windows messenger" just isn't there.

Oh, and I just found out when poking around in the Catalyst program, that my video card for the last 8 months since it was installed was running at 0x (zero) AGP acceleration even though I have an 8x AGP slot!!! :-(((

I thought that it would just go full speed when you install it?

Are you saying that it is not worth paying for AVG?

Windows is marketed as an easy to use and perfect OS, it costs a LOT of money so I expect plug and play functionality, it should just work, if I have to THINK and LEARN how to configure an operating system then I might as well try to install linux.

delete the shortcut. I expected you to have tried this first.