It could be said that each language is designed to solve a different problem. As such each partison in the flame war is correct in thinking their language is the best... at something at least.
All except for Perl. That's just executable line noise.../ducks
I was reading through the criteria, and TCL was docked points for not being able to pass commands through the command line and not having a debugger.
Both are untrue. TCL will happily take command line arguments, and if you set the execute bit under unix, will happily act as programs. If by "programs can be passed over the command line" that he wants to bang out to the shell, there is the exec command. Of course in his hello world program he uses BOTH features.
TCL gives you a complete stack dump on every error that is stored in a global variable "lastError", and you can override the background error with the bgError command. That also covers the "FullInterpreter in Debugger". The language was designed AS a debugger to C programs for christ's sake.
All told that cost TCL 15 points.
Sure I'm quibbling, but if you aren't going to compentantly seek out features save in all your favorites, you look like an idiot putting these comparisons together.
Will the surviving companies from our last bought of VC funding please step forward. Really. Anybody? What happened to the damn sock puppet?
Space launches aren't supposed to be profitable. Heck, do the airlines build the airports, or even the terminals, themselves? Hell no, they get the city or state to pay for them. Do the trucking companies pay for highway repair and upgrades? No, they expect the feds to do that. Do shipping companies pay to dredge shipping channles and construct ports? Not usually.
Private industry doesn't generally like plunking a few billion dollars down in infrastructure without an immediate return. A cruise line may spend close to a billion to float a new ship, but it's expected to pay for itself in less than 10 years.
I would think that before I filed the first brief in a 2 billions dollar lawsuit I would have said paperwork copied a few hundred times, and plate the originals in platnum-iridium.
If there is no paperwork, it didn't happen. If there was paperwork in this case, it should have been the first thing on the evidence table.
Oh no. These companies are like horror movie monsters. No matter how thoroughly you kill them, someone buys up their IP and in a few years decides to try to sue the world at large themselves.
SCO vs. IBM is just an attempt to re-try USL vs. Berkely. If SCO goes under before being hammered flat in the court system it'll be Wayland/Yutani vs. the Linux Developers Guild in 2013.
You need wind speed to generate lift. The missiles are also designed to start off at the velocity of the aircraft. Suddenly lopping 400 mph off the speed of the rocket means it's going to need to use a lot of fuel to get to flight speed.
Which it can't do because the engines don't kick in fully until the missile detects that it is clear of the mount. Assuming they don't have something sophisticated, they probably just use a timer. In either case it would hit the ground either due to physics or safety mechanisms.
And you would probably set the warhead off in the process.
I'm googling now. But I think it's links with a private network.
An article in Space.com back in 2000 describes the ISS Crew as having email, but no Internet access. Email is pretty easy to spool up and delivered when the ISS is in communication range. Web access is another matter entirely. (Remember, it's traveling around the world every 90 minutes. It's constantly hopping between ground relay stations.)
Even if they do have internet access today, they probably have to spool up the sites they want to see and cache them through a proxy/radio relay/whathaveyou.
The complexities of ingress an egress for a robot through an air lock are not simple algorithms.
Now assuming you get past that, something bumbling around in space needs armor to withstand micrometeorites, radiation shielding for the electronics, and some sort of thermal insulation to prevent the mechanics from tearing themselves apart when the sun side of the droid is at 400 degress and the shade site at -200.
CO2 propellent can't be proportionally controlled as well as air from a fan, so you loose fine positioning control. And you have the problem of running out or propellent.
I just wish NASA had thought of it a while back. I know the Columbia accident was a wake up call, but that's like buying flood insurance after a hurricane.
The AMD and/or your power supply would give out way before you would get close to the misery experienced by a tank crew on a hot day.
Points for creativity, but I think there are some vets out there that would call you to the carpet.
The rub with weapon jamming is that you can't tell by looking at it (most times) if the gun is fouled or not. At least not in a "holy shit they are coming over the hill" scenario. If players picked up a gun, and it didn't fire, or heck, blew up in their hands, that feature wouldn't make it through play testing.
It's not that you can't simulate the gun jamming. You can't simulate the feeling of absolute helplessness on the part of the soldier who now seems to have brought a club to a gun fight.
To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. So, too, it is better to capture an army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regiment, a detachment, or a company entire than to destroy them.
Thus the highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy's plans; the next best is to prevent the junction of the enemy's forces; the next in order is to attack the enemy's army in the field, and the worst policy of all is to besiege walled cities. because preparation of mantlets, movable shelters and various implements of war will take up three whole months and the piling up of mounds over against the walls will take three months more. The general, unable to control his irritation, will launch his men to the assault like swarming ants, with the result that one third of his men are slain, while the town still remains untaken. Such are the disastrous effects of a siege.
The skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field. With his forces intact he disputes the mastery of the empire, and thus, without losing a man, his triumph is complete.
This is the method of attacking by stratagem of using the sheathed sword.
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All except for Perl. That's just executable line noise... /ducks
Both are untrue. TCL will happily take command line arguments, and if you set the execute bit under unix, will happily act as programs. If by "programs can be passed over the command line" that he wants to bang out to the shell, there is the exec command. Of course in his hello world program he uses BOTH features.
TCL gives you a complete stack dump on every error that is stored in a global variable "lastError", and you can override the background error with the bgError command. That also covers the "FullInterpreter in Debugger". The language was designed AS a debugger to C programs for christ's sake.
All told that cost TCL 15 points.
Sure I'm quibbling, but if you aren't going to compentantly seek out features save in all your favorites, you look like an idiot putting these comparisons together.
(Disclosure: TCL Guru.)
Last I checked, the manned missions are by far the biggest and most expensive programs. The funding from the unmanned missions is used to offest it.
I'm sure industry would LOVE to take the juicy low-cost stuff, and leave the Government with the expensive risky stuff.
They dropped the project because the Government insisted that DuPont be liable in lawsuits.
Talk about killing the golden goose.
They just want to turn NASA into the MIC once congress nixes SDI.
Space launches aren't supposed to be profitable. Heck, do the airlines build the airports, or even the terminals, themselves? Hell no, they get the city or state to pay for them. Do the trucking companies pay for highway repair and upgrades? No, they expect the feds to do that. Do shipping companies pay to dredge shipping channles and construct ports? Not usually.
Private industry doesn't generally like plunking a few billion dollars down in infrastructure without an immediate return. A cruise line may spend close to a billion to float a new ship, but it's expected to pay for itself in less than 10 years.
He'll be running against Emmanuel Goldstein. The major topic with be the war against East Asia. No wait, the war against Eurasia.
And OJ might track down Nicole's real killer.
I would think that before I filed the first brief in a 2 billions dollar lawsuit I would have said paperwork copied a few hundred times, and plate the originals in platnum-iridium.
If there is no paperwork, it didn't happen. If there was paperwork in this case, it should have been the first thing on the evidence table.
Did SCO hire Bahgdad bob to do press releases... again? There is no Novel victory here. They are committing suicide at the bar!
Firmly on the definsive. Is that what you call showing up with a knife to a gunfight these days?
SCO vs. IBM is just an attempt to re-try USL vs. Berkely. If SCO goes under before being hammered flat in the court system it'll be Wayland/Yutani vs. the Linux Developers Guild in 2013.
Which it can't do because the engines don't kick in fully until the missile detects that it is clear of the mount. Assuming they don't have something sophisticated, they probably just use a timer. In either case it would hit the ground either due to physics or safety mechanisms.
And you would probably set the warhead off in the process.
Hell even Star Wars varied the fighter craft up a bit. (Then again, Lucas did get the inspiration for dog fights from watching WWII movies.)
An article in Space.com back in 2000 describes the ISS Crew as having email, but no Internet access. Email is pretty easy to spool up and delivered when the ISS is in communication range. Web access is another matter entirely. (Remember, it's traveling around the world every 90 minutes. It's constantly hopping between ground relay stations.)
Even if they do have internet access today, they probably have to spool up the sites they want to see and cache them through a proxy/radio relay/whathaveyou.
Palm reader. His muscular forearm on an otherwise scrawny body would be a dead giveaway to a non-psychic.
Now assuming you get past that, something bumbling around in space needs armor to withstand micrometeorites, radiation shielding for the electronics, and some sort of thermal insulation to prevent the mechanics from tearing themselves apart when the sun side of the droid is at 400 degress and the shade site at -200.
CO2 propellent can't be proportionally controlled as well as air from a fan, so you loose fine positioning control. And you have the problem of running out or propellent.
I think that about covers it.
Granted, I was 5 at the time...
I just wish NASA had thought of it a while back. I know the Columbia accident was a wake up call, but that's like buying flood insurance after a hurricane.
LINUX! He said the magic word! [cacaphony of sound ensues]
Points for creativity, but I think there are some vets out there that would call you to the carpet.
The rub with weapon jamming is that you can't tell by looking at it (most times) if the gun is fouled or not. At least not in a "holy shit they are coming over the hill" scenario. If players picked up a gun, and it didn't fire, or heck, blew up in their hands, that feature wouldn't make it through play testing.
It's not that you can't simulate the gun jamming. You can't simulate the feeling of absolute helplessness on the part of the soldier who now seems to have brought a club to a gun fight.
Countermeasures designed to incapacitate (or kill) the intruder. Think Indiana Jones movies.
It's Will Wheeton playing Will Smith who in turn is playing Will Wheeton after the nanites switch their brains.
Thus the highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy's plans; the next best is to prevent the junction of the enemy's forces; the next in order is to attack the enemy's army in the field, and the worst policy of all is to besiege walled cities. because preparation of mantlets, movable shelters and various implements of war will take up three whole months and the piling up of mounds over against the walls will take three months more. The general, unable to control his irritation, will launch his men to the assault like swarming ants, with the result that one third of his men are slain, while the town still remains untaken. Such are the disastrous effects of a siege.
The skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field. With his forces intact he disputes the mastery of the empire, and thus, without losing a man, his triumph is complete.
This is the method of attacking by stratagem of using the sheathed sword.
--Sun Tsu, The Art of War
That would be why I couldn't find it, now wouldn't it.
...Who run amok by turning public monuments in Washington D.C. and New York into jelly... that for some reason also explodes.