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Author:  Shelgeyr [ Mon Sep 27, 2010 12:05 pm ]
Post subject:  My code has purpose!
About 5 months ago, I became curious as to whether or not I could write a VBA macro that would be capable of editing itself. In total, I spent about 4 weeks researching, writing, testing and polishing code to accomplish this. I then shelved it as an entertaining and educational bit of work, but one that had no current practical application.

Today, my boss told me I need to train a co-worker to take over maintenance of my project. I dusted off my re-write subroutines, incorporated them into the project, and told my co-worker "click that button to perform the update".

Conclusion : writing spiffy code is good, finding useful applications for said spiffy code is even better.
Also, I think I deserve a long lunch today :D
Author:  Müs [ Mon Sep 27, 2010 1:13 pm ]
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I could write a VBA macro that would be capable of editing itself.


3 years later, Skynet has become self-aware.
Author:  Shelgeyr [ Mon Sep 27, 2010 2:55 pm ]
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Müs wrote:
Quote:
I could write a VBA macro that would be capable of editing itself.
3 years later, Skynet has become self-aware.
You are now the third person to make that connection, and you know what they say about threes ;)
Author:  Kaffis Mark V [ Mon Sep 27, 2010 2:58 pm ]
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I'm sorry, but if a VBA script destroys humanity, we deserve it, because that's pretty pathetic.
Author:  TheRiov [ Mon Sep 27, 2010 3:24 pm ]
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Shelgeyr wrote:
You are now the third person to make that connection, and you know what they say about threes ;)


They are prime?
Author:  Vladimirr [ Tue Sep 28, 2010 8:45 am ]
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Kaffis Mark V wrote:
I'm sorry, but if a VBA script destroys humanity, we deserve it, because that's pretty pathetic.


I've worked with it (and fixed a lot of it), and I can say VBA does slowly destroy your humanity...
Author:  Stathol [ Tue Sep 28, 2010 10:07 am ]
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Hmmm...polymorphic/self-modifying ms-office-embeded VBA scripts?

In all seriousness, I'll be at least slightly surprised if you project doesn't wind up setting of someone's AV heuristics :P

As aside, I remember that one of my first mind-blowing experiences in my first high-school CS class was writing a program that prints itself (i.e. its source code). I'm not sure why I thought the source code should somehow be different than printing any other file, but it just seemed weird to me that you could do this.

Years later, when I first got involved with Linux, my mind would be blown yet again when I learned that part of the standard process for making a binary release of a new version of gcc was to make the new compiler compile itself. :?
Author:  Müs [ Tue Sep 28, 2010 10:09 am ]
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Stathol wrote:
Years later, when I first got involved with Linux, my mind would be blown yet again when I learned that part of the standard process for making a binary release of a new version of gcc was to make the new compiler compile itself. :?

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Author:  Kaffis Mark V [ Tue Sep 28, 2010 10:31 am ]
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Okay, touché, Vlad. I laughed.
Author:  Shelgeyr [ Tue Sep 28, 2010 12:31 pm ]
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Stathol wrote:
Hmmm...polymorphic/self-modifying ms-office-embeded VBA scripts?

In all seriousness, I'll be at least slightly surprised if you project doesn't wind up setting of someone's AV heuristics :P
The automated editing doesn't worry me near so much as the portion of scripting which reads data from the registry. The day I wrote that bit, I was concerned about getting a call from IT but they seem to have either not noticed or not cared.
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