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   Message 2,187 of 2,978   
   Bruce Roberts to Jim P   
   Re: urgent help needed   
   03 Jun 06 17:15:03   
   
   XPost: comp.lang.c++, alt.comp.lang.borland-delphi   
   From: dontsendtober@pleaseatbancoems.com   
      
   "Jim P"  wrote in message   
   news:bLudnQZt0qIFNB3ZnZ2dnUVZ_qOdnZ2d@comcast.com...   
      
   > Why do this the hard way.   
      
   Because that is what was asked for.   
      
   > I showed a 10 year old kid how to do this in VB and then in Delphi.   
   >   
   > Just put some edit boxes on the form.   
   >   
   > and some buttons - - click a button does selected task. Cheap, Simply and   
   > educational. The kid and friends played with it for hours - to the   
   > mothers surprise. and the kid did the coding.   
      
   Except that this solution cannot handle out of order evaluation, e.g. 5 + 6   
   * 7, with correct operator precedence. Glad the kids had fun learning   
   something new.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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