Maybe the real question here is "What Does the Powerful Programming Language Make?"
Only by answering this question, can you really make a informed decision on the language to use. Neither OO or functional programming alone is a cure-all. They each have their boons and setbacks. IMHO, the more volatile the field of your application is, the better off you are with a RAD tool. An example in this case would be using Perl/PHP for an internet application. And for large development teams, I would recommend an OO tool (read easier delegation)
What I would love to see in a language is something merges the power of Perl (mainly regular expressions) w/ something like Visual C++ (OO + GUI), AND allows easy distribution (doesn't require a special runtime module, and is not a pain in the neck for Joe Blow to install on his machine)
I sincerely agree that SQ3 was the best one. I played that thing over and over, always ending up about 5-10 points shy of the total score. To this day, I still don't know what extra thing I had to type to secure those points:(
Yes, finding a good bargain online nowadays is like finding a piece of hay in a stack of needles.
Here are links I always use when Pay Day comes around. Some of them aren't rock-bottom deals, but they are quite reasonable (i.e. better than Best Buy):
Computer Stuff www.techbargains.com
www.newegg.com
Video Games www.ebgames.com www.easybuy2000.com
DVD's www.dvdpricesearch.com
Books www.bestbookbuys.com
www.bookpool.com (they have more used i think)
Price Comparison www.pricewatch.com www.pricescan.com
I'd love to hear from others on this, I wouldn't mind saving more!:)
There was another detailed web presentation of the history of video games posted about two years ago..I want to say it was GameSpot, but can't remember..Does anyone know?
IMHO this is the best way to go. You can use Perl with Win32::OLE to generate your word files, adding in all the pretty formatting, especially if you ever need to automate any of it.
Both of these print statements have the same results. My point is that every programmer has their own special coding nuances. Taking these away to adopt to some standard might be counter-productive, because in most cases the original developer will probably be making revisions later, and some of us probably know how hard it can be to read someone else's perl:) Speaking of semantics, maybe my original comment was worded precisely enough, and therefore misinterpreted...
Noticed you have a lot of perl scripts, which is similar to the situation I've been in before. Come up with some agreeable style (i.e. indenting) but stay away from the semantic issues,
because a perl script speaks identity loudly. Case in point, how do you reference an item in a list: @list[0] or $list[0], Both are accepted, and in way, both are intuitive, it just depends on how you're learned the ropes. End Transmission.
I highly recommend this game. For what's it worth, I've never really been turned onto to strategy games before, but my passion for Star Wars is what baited me. Now I play this game almost religiously. Not really a big fan of military or medieval strategy, but sci-fi makes it very fun.
Great console to have, not just for its own nostalgic merit, but for also for emulating other nostalgic systems (handles MAME and Nintendo very well)...It's just crazy to believe that about 1450 nintendo games can all fit on the same self-booting cd...and all under 300MB I believe.
Hmm, here's food for thought. Maybe Lucas has been targeting the young audience so that as they mature, they will be old enough to appreciate the original Star Wars trilogy, by the time the whole anthology is complete.
Back in high school, my friends played BattleTech religiously...with a twist. They each chose a particular House (e.g. Kurita, Laos), and if a BattleTech novel mentioned a particular technology or capability they possessed, they could use that in gameplay.
It was always interesting to watch this in action. They would shout out page numbers in their defense (which usually resulted in a skeptical huddle around the earmarked novel in question.) It was quite funny sometimes, like watching young attorneys argue in mute court.
Has any other Cox@Home customer been having strange problems with web access in the last few days (specifically all HTTP connections?) Occasionally, out of the blue, I lose my connection to the web, but my Usenet traffic carries on normally. I confirmed it's not a DNS problem....BUT I have also been tinkering with my router a bit, just wanted to know if the Cox@Home breakup had anything to do with recent performance...Thx
Maybe seeing this movie is too close to what it feels like to watch the FMV scenes while playing the actual game. Often, we want to skip it and start playing again. Only watching it in the theater there's no joystick and it's one long-ass FMV scene.
Also named in the lawsuit are the creators of Jurassic Park for portraying dinosaurs as menacing creatures, and Scott Adamas, creator of Dilbert, for portraying dinosaurs as wedgie-administering bullies.
Pinch me, I'm dreaming.
I've used C/C++, Perl, and csh over the years. I've found that I don't use one language for everything. The best example I can illustrate deals with regular expressions, string manipulation, and advanced data structures like lists and hashes. For longer, more detailed projects I use C++. For what it lacks, you can still embed Perl in your code (Note: I haven't attempted this yet, but the possibility exists.)
Perl in itself is C-friendly in that it recognizes C expressions to a limited extent. Now I don't speak out against a new scripting language like CSS, but there is already a wealthy of modules written. If any new scripting language is written, I think it should brave new territories that current languages/tools are weak at.
Reminds me of a really funny dilbert comic, I can't quote it exactly but it went something like this:
Dear Personnel, our security department has exhaustively analyzed our password usage, and determined that most of them are high risk, in that they are easy to crack. For example, words in the dictionary, family member names, numbers, etc. Because of this, we have created a list of ten passwords which we believe will provide the utmost security. From now on, you are required to use one of the following passwords. Please forward this around, so that the message gets out.
Piss on Ford? Piss on Chevy? No! Piss on Microsoft! Show the world how you feel, don a Piss on Microsoft sticker on the back window of your vehicle. Ok, maybe that's a bit geeky but it gets the message out!
Just had a brainfart, could PC users dole out some of their unused processor cycles (ala SETI) to contribute to the renderfarm. In exchange, you could get a theater discount when it hits the silkscreen?
This is really cool, but I don't think it helps
those who argue that computer graphics is an art.
When you can't tell the difference between human
art and computer generated art, is it really an art? or does it pass some Turing-esque test?
Could you create two names for your project, one that is school-specific, and another name for GNU purposes? Then the project takes on two lifes, one where it maintained by the school if they decided to use it for whatever, and your own personal one for open sourcing it on your own?
Jesus Christ, you would think that if developers WANTED that feature, they would include a metatag to ENABLE it, not disable it. I know a few extra characters in an HTML file won't affect the download that much, but Hell why would I want Microsoft to require me to do this?
end of steamy rant
You can already get a free domain name
from namezero.com. They forward to your web-host,
and you just have to put up with a small advert frame at the bottom.
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"What Does the Powerful Programming Language Make?"
Only by answering this question, can you really make a informed decision on the language to use. Neither OO or functional programming alone is a cure-all. They each have their boons and setbacks. IMHO, the more volatile the field of your application is, the better off you are with a RAD tool. An example in this case would be using Perl/PHP for an internet application. And for large development teams, I would recommend an OO tool (read easier delegation)
What I would love to see in a language is something merges the power of Perl (mainly regular expressions) w/ something like Visual C++ (OO + GUI), AND allows easy distribution (doesn't require a special runtime module, and is not a pain in the neck for Joe Blow to install on his machine)
I sincerely agree that SQ3 was the best one. I played that thing over and over, always ending up about 5-10 points shy of the total score. To this day, I still don't know what extra thing I had to type to secure those points :(
Here are links I always use when Pay Day comes around. Some of them aren't rock-bottom deals, but they are quite reasonable (i.e. better than Best Buy):
Computer Stuff
www.techbargains.com
www.newegg.com
Video Games
www.ebgames.com
www.easybuy2000.com
DVD's
www.dvdpricesearch.com
Books
www.bestbookbuys.com
www.bookpool.com (they have more used i think) Price Comparison
www.pricewatch.com
www.pricescan.com
I'd love to hear from others on this, I wouldn't mind saving more! :)
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/02/27/225024 9&mode=thread
There was another detailed web presentation of the history of video games posted about two years ago..I want to say it was GameSpot, but can't remember..Does anyone know?thx
IMHO this is the best way to go. You can use Perl with Win32::OLE to generate your word files, adding in all the pretty formatting, especially if you ever need to automate any of it.
I'm talking about simple cases such as:
:) Speaking of semantics, maybe my original comment was worded precisely enough, and therefore misinterpreted...
@list = ("apple","banana","chihuahua");
print "\n@list[0] @list[1] @list[2]"; print "\n$list[0] $list[1] $list[2]";
Both of these print statements have the same results. My point is that every programmer has their own special coding nuances. Taking these away to adopt to some standard might be counter-productive, because in most cases the original developer will probably be making revisions later, and some of us probably know how hard it can be to read someone else's perl
Noticed you have a lot of perl scripts, which is similar to the situation I've been in before. Come up with some agreeable style (i.e. indenting) but stay away from the semantic issues, because a perl script speaks identity loudly. Case in point, how do you reference an item in a list: @list[0] or $list[0], Both are accepted, and in way, both are intuitive, it just depends on how you're learned the ropes. End Transmission.
I highly recommend this game. For what's it worth, I've never really been turned onto to strategy games before, but my passion for Star Wars is what baited me. Now I play this game almost religiously. Not really a big fan of military or medieval strategy, but sci-fi makes it very fun.
Great console to have, not just for its own nostalgic merit, but for also for emulating other nostalgic systems (handles MAME and Nintendo very well)...It's just crazy to believe that about 1450 nintendo games can all fit on the same self-booting cd...and all under 300MB I believe.
Hmm, here's food for thought. Maybe Lucas has been targeting the young audience so that as they mature, they will be old enough to appreciate the original Star Wars trilogy, by the time the whole anthology is complete.
It was always interesting to watch this in action. They would shout out page numbers in their defense (which usually resulted in a skeptical huddle around the earmarked novel in question.) It was quite funny sometimes, like watching young attorneys argue in mute court.
Has any other Cox@Home customer been having strange problems with web access in the last few days (specifically all HTTP connections?) Occasionally, out of the blue, I lose my connection to the web, but my Usenet traffic carries on normally. I confirmed it's not a DNS problem....BUT I have also been tinkering with my router a bit, just wanted to know if the Cox@Home breakup had anything to do with recent performance...Thx
God, I miss First Saturday (I live in Tucson, AZ now.) I think that was the only thing that made me wake up excited at 5am
Maybe seeing this movie is too close to what it feels like to watch the FMV scenes while playing the actual game. Often, we want to skip it and start playing again. Only watching it in the theater there's no joystick and it's one long-ass FMV scene.
I loved this game. I think it would make an excellent movie.
Also named in the lawsuit are the creators of Jurassic Park for portraying dinosaurs as menacing creatures, and Scott Adamas, creator of Dilbert, for portraying dinosaurs as wedgie-administering bullies.
Pinch me, I'm dreaming.
I've used C/C++, Perl, and csh over the years. I've found that I don't use one language for everything. The best example I can illustrate deals with regular expressions, string manipulation, and advanced data structures like lists and hashes. For longer, more detailed projects I use C++. For what it lacks, you can still embed Perl in your code (Note: I haven't attempted this yet, but the possibility exists.) Perl in itself is C-friendly in that it recognizes C expressions to a limited extent. Now I don't speak out against a new scripting language like CSS, but there is already a wealthy of modules written. If any new scripting language is written, I think it should brave new territories that current languages/tools are weak at.
Dear Personnel, our security department has exhaustively analyzed our password usage, and determined that most of them are high risk, in that they are easy to crack. For example, words in the dictionary, family member names, numbers, etc. Because of this, we have created a list of ten passwords which we believe will provide the utmost security. From now on, you are required to use one of the following passwords. Please forward this around, so that the message gets out.
1. jfkasjdfa23r@#$@#
2. aFAWJF@#F23jkf3f23
3. FJsdafj23ifj23fjfe
4. if23F@#Jf23fj2i3fji
5. @#F23kfjfjdkfjdfkj
6. afj28fjfsdFAJSDffd
7. F@j3fj8dsjfasdflkjf
8. jaF@#FJdkfjalofiwed
9. aAJSDFIEifjefijefiej
10. FJAIEFKfjdfojiaejfoije
Thanks,
Human Resources
heheh
Piss on Ford? Piss on Chevy? No!
Piss on Microsoft! Show the world how you feel, don a Piss on Microsoft sticker on the back window of your vehicle. Ok, maybe that's a bit geeky but it gets the message out!
Just had a brainfart, could PC users dole out some of their unused processor cycles (ala SETI) to contribute to the renderfarm. In exchange, you could get a theater discount when it hits the silkscreen?
This is really cool, but I don't think it helps those who argue that computer graphics is an art. When you can't tell the difference between human art and computer generated art, is it really an art? or does it pass some Turing-esque test?
Could you create two names for your project, one that is school-specific, and another name for GNU purposes? Then the project takes on two lifes, one where it maintained by the school if they decided to use it for whatever, and your own personal one for open sourcing it on your own?
Jesus Christ, you would think that if developers WANTED that feature, they would include a metatag to ENABLE it, not disable it. I know a few extra characters in an HTML file won't affect the download that much, but Hell why would I want Microsoft to require me to do this? end of steamy rant
You can already get a free domain name from namezero.com. They forward to your web-host, and you just have to put up with a small advert frame at the bottom.