You make no sense. You have been brainwashed. Please, stop repeating what you have been told in school without thinking about it. Read Dijkstra's "Go To Statement Considered Harmful" essay and think about what he says there. Then read the "Go To Statement Considered Harmful: A Retrospective" essay and think again.
The goto statement is very useful. Your dislike of it is irrational. Do you even know why you do not like it? Often, goto is the best solution to given problem.
I wonder where does the 1/2 come from. GDP of EU (according to CIA Fact Book) in 2007 was $16.37 trillion and GDP of US was just $13.79 trillion. I ain't no economist but I suspect the size of the market correlates with GDP.
Is this all because of the post-9/11 scare? Do people really want such police states? Isn't the few thousand dead people now and then actually a little price compared to the price of all the lost freedoms?
That's only because we're closer to the sun than to all the other stars. In other words, its a matter of perspective. Take a step back, and you'll KNOW that vi outshines emacs;-0
Simplicity: [X] vi [_] emacs
Less bloat: [X] vi [_] emacs
More users: [X] vi [_] emacs
ad 1. Where is the simplicity of vi? What is simpler: With Emacs, you start it and you can start typing and modifying your file. With vi, you start it then you have to switch the right mode and then you can start typing. And when you realise that you want erase part of your text, you have to switch to different mode. And then back to start adding text again. Is that the simplicity you are talking about?
ad 2. What is really bloat? With Emacs, you get lots of useful editing modes and some simple apps. But if you do not want to use them then you do not have to use them. Or is this about size of the distribution tarball?
ad 3. Hmm. I don't think I have ever seen any survey about editors that would support the statement. On the other hand, it might be true. That said, let me remind you that more users does not always mean better. I am sure you can find one pretty good example of that if you think hard enough.
They picked only the easy problems. What I miss on the list is things like "Cure famine in Africa and elsewhere", "Abolish religions" and "Find cures to incurable diseases."
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Total lack of name spaces, even after all those years it has been around, inconsistency and redundancy (See how many functions there are for simple string matching.), no real references, flaky implementation, etc.
Because of all the flaws PHP has? It is possible to use PHP for single page but not for anything else. Using it for anything bigger is pure sadomasochism.
That guy has some valid points but I seriously fail to understand how can he recommend PHP over Perl for web development. PHP is unsuitable for everything including web development.
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You make no sense. You have been brainwashed. Please, stop repeating what you have been told in school without thinking about it. Read Dijkstra's "Go To Statement Considered Harmful" essay and think about what he says there. Then read the "Go To Statement Considered Harmful:
A Retrospective" essay and think again.
The goto statement is very useful. Your dislike of it is irrational. Do you even know why you do not like it? Often, goto is the best solution to given problem.
Seriously? I thought they were the same person. This makes both of them somewhat less extraordinary.
I totally agree. Whoever has moded the parent post down is an $&@#$&%.
I wonder where does the 1/2 come from. GDP of EU (according to CIA Fact Book) in 2007 was $16.37 trillion and GDP of US was just $13.79 trillion. I ain't no economist but I suspect the size of the market correlates with GDP.
The problem is PHP and web sites done with it. And no, this is not a troll, this is a fact. So, your fix: Don't use PHP and PHP based software.
Is this all because of the post-9/11 scare? Do people really want such police states? Isn't the few thousand dead people now and then actually a little price compared to the price of all the lost freedoms?
"identify theft"?
...Note that there's a difference between being declared not guilty in a court of law and actually being not guilty.
What is the difference to anybody who is not Hans Reiser?That's only because we're closer to the sun than to all the other stars. In other words, its a matter of perspective. Take a step back, and you'll KNOW that vi outshines emacs ;-0
ad 1. Where is the simplicity of vi? What is simpler: With Emacs, you start it and you can start typing and modifying your file. With vi, you start it then you have to switch the right mode and then you can start typing. And when you realise that you want erase part of your text, you have to switch to different mode. And then back to start adding text again. Is that the simplicity you are talking about?
ad 2. What is really bloat? With Emacs, you get lots of useful editing modes and some simple apps. But if you do not want to use them then you do not have to use them. Or is this about size of the distribution tarball?
ad 3. Hmm. I don't think I have ever seen any survey about editors that would support the statement. On the other hand, it might be true. That said, let me remind you that more users does not always mean better. I am sure you can find one pretty good example of that if you think hard enough.
They picked only the easy problems. What I miss on the list is things like "Cure famine in Africa and elsewhere", "Abolish religions" and "Find cures to incurable diseases."
Total lack of name spaces, even after all those years it has been around, inconsistency and redundancy (See how many functions there are for simple string matching.), no real references, flaky implementation, etc.
Because of all the flaws PHP has? It is possible to use PHP for single page but not for anything else. Using it for anything bigger is pure sadomasochism.
That guy has some valid points but I seriously fail to understand how can he recommend PHP over Perl for web development. PHP is unsuitable for everything including web development.
Or maybe the countries' laws just allow it. You know, US law is still only valid on US land.
I do. There are certain searches, like search for PuTTY, for which I know it definitely does find what I want.
...application of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gowachin legal customs.