Reading fixed columns of float data from text file with C#

[harrytrader]

I don't like C : I have learned to program in Assembly langage at enginering school (because I would have never done so on my own) and it would astonish you but I find assembly more clearer than C : there are fewer instructions and it's like programming a tiny spreadsheet with less than a dozen cells . OK It's almost a joke: what I mean is that the syntax of C was originally a macro langage for assembler and that it has turned into a "high level" language whereas it hasn't been designed for that so that I don't really see what makes C really "high level" and so readable .

Quote from axeman:

The only advantage is industry acceptance/support and the
synergy that comes from this.

C++ dominated for years and I cant think of a worse OO language.

Management doesn't care about an obscure language that
is AWESOME, if everyone else isn't using it. Lemmings all of them.


peace

axeman

 

[harrytrader]

Perhaps the only but considered as the MAIN because the real cost is the experience of the guys and all the past applications that have been already developped with.

Quote from axeman:

The only advantage is industry acceptance/support and the
synergy that comes from this.


peace

axeman

 

[harrytrader]

I have MASM32 and TASM32 ... for one day I promised that I would make fun again by programming the Windows API with them . I have never done so in fact but I would like to do so because that's how you really understand how the architecture really works. I never program really since a few years now but I still need to keep in touch with the ground when I supervise a programmer it can help to understand when something goes wrong.

Quote from harrytrader:

I don't like C : I have learned to program in Assembly langage at enginering school (because I would have never done so on my own) and it would astonish you but I find assembly more clearer than C : there are fewer instructions and it's like programming a tiny spreadsheet with less than a dozen cells . OK It's almost a joke: what I mean is that the syntax of C was originally a macro langage for assembler and that it has turned into a "high level" language whereas it hasn't been designed for that so that I don't really see what makes C really "high level" and so readable .

 

[bungrider]

Quote from StillTrading:

IMHO, I think there is so much more hype than promise in the next generation languages (Java, C#). Personally I find Im writing most of my code these days in python (and to a lesser extent ruby). What do you see as the advantages for C# bungrider?

FWIW, you probably know about it, but there is a compiler for python called psycho or something like that which (supposedly) makes code run several times faster..

i am comfortable with C# b/c i am a novice. and it is fast and has allowed me to write apps quickly.

we have been over this many times here. do a search for C#.

 

[ArchAngel]

Quote from axeman:
Management doesn't care about an obscure language that
is AWESOME, if everyone else isn't using it. Lemmings all of them.

Spoken like someone who's never been responsible for millions of dollars of a corporation's money.

It's hardly an issue of "lemmings" - it's strategically stupid for a major company to commit to a thinly adopted/niche development platform - the limited pool of people knowledgable in it means your costs rapidly become ridiculous, as a result you invariably have to deal with bozos with super egos expecting to be paid way beyond their real abilities, limited availability of third party tools, and a few years later you can find yourself sitting on a mass of code built in what is now a defunct platform.

Living in the real world, it's less an issue of "technical awesomeness" as it is about cost effective practicality.

 

[axeman]

Yeah I know.... I know.... but im just a frustrated techie
who hates to see the real killer technology ignored, simply
because it never had a big backer shoving it down everyones
throat

After all... I *AM* using the "popular" language instead of
my language of choice.


peace

axeman

Quote from ArchAngel:

Spoken like someone who's never been responsible for millions of dollars of a corporation's money.

It's hardly an issue of "lemmings" - it's strategically stupid for a major company to commit to a thinly adopted/niche development platform - the limited pool of people knowledgable in it means your costs rapidly become ridiculous, as a result you invariably have to deal with bozos with super egos expecting to be paid way beyond their real abilities, limited availability of third party tools, and a few years later you can find yourself sitting on a mass of code built in what is now a defunct platform.

Living in the real world, it's less an issue of "technical awesomeness" as it is about cost effective practicality.

 

[harrytrader]

And there is also a reason that is never told: it's just less risky for a manager to make a herd decision and chose even a bad and/or costfull but well marketized product than chose a technology that nobody has not put his feet into yet . For example I have been working for several client big firms and many bought Compaq and at that time there were many failures with Compaq screens : so I asked one day to the manager: why do you still take Compaq it's a recurrent problem. He smiled and answered: well if I take Compaq even if it doesn't work nobody will reproach me as thousands of enterprises have chosen Compaq as Compaq is reputable, if I take something else and it doesn't work, I will be reproached for sure.

Quote from harrytrader:

Perhaps the only but considered as the MAIN because the real cost is the experience of the guys and all the past applications that have been already developped with.

 

[StillTrading]

I agree that in the real world there are other considerations above and beyond solely the technical merits for choosing a language or product, and I agree with harry that some of that (or most of that) is related to perception / accountability. Its the same argument people that people say when regarding the stock selection of big mutual funds. But as someone who develops code, I personally haven't heard a compelling case for C# (on technical merit).

Quote from ArchAngel:

Spoken like someone who's never been responsible for millions of dollars of a corporation's money.

It's hardly an issue of "lemmings" - it's strategically stupid for a major company to commit to a thinly adopted/niche development platform - the limited pool of people knowledgable in it means your costs rapidly become ridiculous, as a result you invariably have to deal with bozos with super egos expecting to be paid way beyond their real abilities, limited availability of third party tools, and a few years later you can find yourself sitting on a mass of code built in what is now a defunct platform.

Living in the real world, it's less an issue of "technical awesomeness" as it is about cost effective practicality.

 

[StillTrading]

Actually I havent (I was hoping to look it up yesterday but ran out of time). Im guessing its comporable to py2exe or freeze. I'll check it out...

Quote from bungrider:

FWIW, you probably know about it, but there is a compiler for python called psycho or something like that which (supposedly) makes code run several times faster..

i am comfortable with C# b/c i am a novice. and it is fast and has allowed me to write apps quickly.

we have been over this many times here. do a search for C#.

 

[NoMoreOptions]

A quick answer with out reading into your question.

Use StreamReader, string.Split, and double/decimal.Parse.