It may be all you *need* to get started, but I'm sure you know that PHP's OO these days is quite stellar. PHP 5 classes are now complete, with the whole OO shebang: polymorphism, encapsulation, interfaces, C++-like exception handling... the only thing that it doesn't support, and I'm not sure it *is* strictly necessary, is multiple inheritance. For the rest, you should try PHP 5, it is a very mature language and, IMHO, quite suitable for general purpose programming, not only web pages, even more so with the recent release of PHP-QT (there is already a PHP-GTK if that's your poison) for stand-alone GUI applications.
Palms used to be good products in the 90s and up to about 2002. Now, the PalmOS 5 is quite old, and it shows. Unstable, single-tasking, outdated interface. I recently bought a LifeDrive: wow, 4 gigs, bluetooth and WiFi in a single Palm device, that's sweet! But no. The bitch is nearly as crash-prone as Windows 98 in a good day.
Now, there is an independent effort to port Linux to it, and I (not being quite the programmer I'd like to be) await eagerly for its conclusion, so I can use at least a decent OS on this very capable hardware.
Palm promised that Linux would be under the hood of the new PalmOS version, but to this day it's only vapourware.
And no, don't tell me to pay the Microsoft tax on a PocketPC system so I can run Linux on a handheld.
Well, the kernel was only the last missing piece on a whole operating system develop by Stallman. Compiler, shell, editor, programming tools, the whole GNU shebang existed in 1991 for some reason, and that was NOT due to Stallman/ the GNU project inaction. Now that they got a kernel (i.e., Linus'), development efforts can be focused on other areas (not that HURD will be dropped, but there are other important areas that need more immediate attention; the kernel problem is, for now, solved).
Except for the return statement and the braces (i.e., slight differences in notation), this looks pretty much like the mathematical definition of factorial...
You, boy, should be grateful for your backspace key. When I was a lad there were no such things as keys; we used our very own fingers to close the 12000V contacts. Our programs were entered in binary, and we were lucky when we did it all right the first time, for so Dad wouldn't bang our heads with a baseball bat. Furthermore, in order to get 12000V (lower tensions didn't pass through our fingers) on the patch-panel contacts, we had to bring in our own 300lb transformers. On our backs. Uphill both ways.
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That's right, /. is run and owned by MBAs!
Hey, no need to be so harsh to the poor editors! They may be stoopid and all, but... MBAs? C'mon!
You nerd.
Where are my mod points when I need them?
s/make/making, of course.
At the risk of make a fool of myself, what was so funny in parent post?
It may be all you *need* to get started, but I'm sure you know that PHP's OO these days is quite stellar. PHP 5 classes are now complete, with the whole OO shebang: polymorphism, encapsulation, interfaces, C++-like exception handling... the only thing that it doesn't support, and I'm not sure it *is* strictly necessary, is multiple inheritance. For the rest, you should try PHP 5, it is a very mature language and, IMHO, quite suitable for general purpose programming, not only web pages, even more so with the recent release of PHP-QT (there is already a PHP-GTK if that's your poison) for stand-alone GUI applications.
And what "ASP/VB programmer" is? A singularity?
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Man, you have the whole fucking (wanking?) Slashdot crowd reading that.
Want some good Brazilian beer in exchange for that wine of yours?
How evil would Microsoft be if Oracle acquired Microsoft? IOW, how evil Oracle is?
You sound bitter here. Do you have a personal history about that?
Goddamned to the point. And with a nice, round UID to boot.
Damn ignorant mods.
What version are they using? You know, they released version 2.6 last week (not for Linux, though... the rest of us have to keep with 2.5)
Hard to see a sig so on topic as yours...
Palms used to be good products in the 90s and up to about 2002. Now, the PalmOS 5 is quite old, and it shows. Unstable, single-tasking, outdated interface. I recently bought a LifeDrive: wow, 4 gigs, bluetooth and WiFi in a single Palm device, that's sweet! But no. The bitch is nearly as crash-prone as Windows 98 in a good day.
Now, there is an independent effort to port Linux to it, and I (not being quite the programmer I'd like to be) await eagerly for its conclusion, so I can use at least a decent OS on this very capable hardware.
Palm promised that Linux would be under the hood of the new PalmOS version, but to this day it's only vapourware.
And no, don't tell me to pay the Microsoft tax on a PocketPC system so I can run Linux on a handheld.
Well, the kernel was only the last missing piece on a whole operating system develop by Stallman. Compiler, shell, editor, programming tools, the whole GNU shebang existed in 1991 for some reason, and that was NOT due to Stallman/ the GNU project inaction. Now that they got a kernel (i.e., Linus'), development efforts can be focused on other areas (not that HURD will be dropped, but there are other important areas that need more immediate attention; the kernel problem is, for now, solved).
Lesseee...
double factorial(double n)
{
if(n==0)
return 1;
else
return n * factorial (n-1);
}
Except for the return statement and the braces (i.e., slight differences in notation), this looks pretty much like the mathematical definition of factorial...
Since there are no such games available for linux, bsd, and soloairs
Doom 3, Quake 4, Unreal in its various versions, America's Army are all available for Linux, and, by extension, for FreeBSD at least.
Are there any graphics applications under linux that would take advantage of it?
Blender, Maya come to mind; surely there are others.
Quirk's Clause: Intentional invocation of Godwin's Law is ineffectual.
You, boy, should be grateful for your backspace key. When I was a lad there were no such things as keys; we used our very own fingers to close the 12000V contacts. Our programs were entered in binary, and we were lucky when we did it all right the first time, for so Dad wouldn't bang our heads with a baseball bat. Furthermore, in order to get 12000V (lower tensions didn't pass through our fingers) on the patch-panel contacts, we had to bring in our own 300lb transformers. On our backs. Uphill both ways.
It's not fair to Fyodr! You slashdotted him, you insensitive clods!
Am I too cruel to think about Darwin here?
Go grab Seamonkey.
"Googled" as in "slashdotted"? Clusterfucked!
"Googled" as "searched for"? Googled.
However, who is the biggest ARM seller these days? I believe it is Intel, not DEC (R.I.P.)