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What Makes a Powerful Programming Language?
A not-so Anonymous Coward queries: "My company is about to start development on a new project, and I have to decide on a language and development environment. My boss gave me a set of criteria which needs to be filled: intuitive and easy to use IDE; simplified GUI design and event handling; advanced error handling; advanced object oriented design including multiple inheritance, abstract classes, and garbage collection; full support for operator and function overloading; and portable (at compile-time) across various platforms. I have already looked at C++, Java, C++, C#, Eiffel, and even VB.net; I may be missing something but as far as I can tell all of these languages are missing something from this list. Is there a language available that has all of these features? I thought that someone from Slashdot would be able to point me in the right direction?" If you were to design a language from the ground up, what features would you include and why?
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Fuck off trolls!
Operator overloading made baby Jesus cry.
Malike Bamiyi wanted my assistance.
Enron is a Texas based company. "W", if you'll recall, used to be govenor of Texas and his family. So this whole 'Enron happened before Bush got on the political scene' excuse dosen't fly.
/ enron011210.html (since it's convenient)
You're absolutly right that Clinton helped Enron lobby India and got money for it. Enron spread it's money around quite liberally.
Clinton wasn't the proponent of energy deregulation though, Bush was (and indirectly, many of his friends and 'handlers' as you say.)
Sigs are short, so I couldn't give a detailed explanation of my position, but the republican led push for 'deregulation' has been a disaster and crippled a wartime economy.
The issues here are several;
1. Who were the proponents of energy deregulation that has caused such a huge ethical and financial problem?
2. Who was in a position to know Enron's actual financial condition?
3. Who was responsible for the oversite failure of Arthur Anderson?
Obviously Bush can't be blamed for #3.
#1 and #2 though, fall squarely on his shoulders and those of his 'handlers' to use your term again. ( or associates. I'm not sure if Bush gets handled quite as much as Clinton did)
Taken from http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/DailyNews
As Bush assumed the presidency, Enron had unusual access to the new administration's deliberations about energy policy and appointments to important posts. Lay served on the Bush transition team and helped interview candidates for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which oversees the gas pipelines and electricity grids that are key to Enron's business. Earlier this year, the commission's chairman, Curtis Hebert, who was being considered for reappointment by the White House, declared himself "offended" by Lay's lobbying efforts. Hebert later quit the panel.
Enron alumni also fill prominent slots in the Bush administration. The president's chief economic adviser, Larry Lindsey, and the top trade negotiator, Robert Zoellick, both served as advisers to the company. Secretary of the Army Thomas White was an Enron executive before joining the administration. When he assumed the Army post, White was forced to sell more than $25 million in Enron stock, according to a financial disclosure form he filed.
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It's the end of my comment as I know it and I feel fine.
Ruby simply didn't offer enough of a reason to switch off of Perl, Java or Python. Its elegant but not groundbreaking, and frankly the market for programming languages is already overpopulated.