Have you considered csound, it's fast, simple, powerfull and all text so you wont have to worry about wimpy GUI and you can interface it quit easily. It's not multithreaded so you won't benefit from multiple processor but I found it pretty scalable (something like stacking 50000 sine waves, just make sure you have plenty of RAM,I once brought a SGI box to it's knee doing that;)
It will take a long time for people to switch to FP because the imperative mindset is so deeply anchored in their habits. Usually people who have never encountered FP don't know the power it could give them so they don't even try to learn it. But if you know it and want to use it at your job but management won't let you use a functional language, use an imperative language with functional possibilities, use Perl.
Perl has anonymous data structures, closures with deep binding, map, grep , sort, name it. It lacks some advanced stuff like call/cc and macros but with what you have got, you can be a happy functionnal programmer without anyone even knowing it. The only problem is if you have an imperative weenie (or an OO weenie for that matter) that has to review your code and ask you to change it because he has no clue about how 'map' works.
It doesn't matter what language you use, as long as you are able to separate HTML from code. Don't use emebeded code like PHP or Embperl, don't use a bunch of printf("$foo") in your code, you will end up with something that only you will be able to understand. You know how many time people ask me to change the size of a font, or the image aligment, or the layout of a form? A lot. With a proper templating system, all you have to do is edit simple HTML. Hey, even a designer could do it. Look for HTML::Template in CPAN, that's the most usefull module ever, heck it's even more usefull than CGI.pm (who wants to write HTML in perl anyway?).
The same group that loses so much money by not selling CDs has 6 albums in the top 100 for the most listened-to CDs on the internet (http://www.cddb.com/top100.html). That makes you think...
I'm this close of burning all of my Metallica CDs, I mean they used to make great music with great attitude, 'And Justice for All..' is IMO one of the best album of the 80's but now all they seem to be able to do is crap both musically and philosophically. This is so sad but I think we should make an example of those bastards and stop listening to their music. At least will have Megadeth and Slayer who also do bad music today but at least try to show some respect for their fan. We should put up a site or something.
Lots of software these days are released under multiple licenses. Most of the time (for example for Ghostscript), the GPL version is the oldest/less enhanced one. Do you support multiple licensing, do you think that software that is available in an enhanced binarie only version is still free software. What kind of message does that send to the public (free = inferior)?
(By the way thank you for being who you are;)
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Quoting the late Francis Vincent Zappa: "Java is not dead, it just smells funny"
I was talking about the G4 as the machine (the blue thing) not G4 as the processor. I shure hope someone will market an open PPC box, those processors can shurely scream if they don't have to run a broken OS (MacOS 9) . As for X it shure looks nice but paying $499.00 for an OS is a bit outdated. And there are security issues too.
Isn't that the same company that built the G4 so that it would not allow to run anything else but MacOS. Before opening up the source they might want to open the hardware first. That would be a start.
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...that I can use my Answering Machine as a VCR?
Nachos are much better.
Bush-Tex?
Have you considered csound, it's fast, simple, powerfull and all text so you wont have to worry about wimpy GUI and you can interface it quit easily. It's not multithreaded so you won't benefit from multiple processor but I found it pretty scalable (something like stacking 50000 sine waves, just make sure you have plenty of RAM,I once brought a SGI box to it's knee doing that ;)
gimp 1.1 has paths, so 1.2 will have it too.
I can't see the difference between 16 and 32 bits, really.
Computer turned off, cast into solid titanium,
dropped somewhere in the Pacific?
It will take a long time for people to switch to FP because the imperative mindset is so deeply anchored in their habits.
Usually people who have never encountered FP don't know the power it could give them so they don't even try to learn it.
But if you know it and want to use it at your job but management won't let you use a functional language, use an imperative language with functional possibilities, use Perl.
Perl has anonymous data structures, closures with deep binding, map, grep , sort, name it. It lacks some advanced stuff like call/cc and macros but with what you have got, you can be a happy functionnal programmer without anyone even knowing it. The only problem is if you have an imperative weenie (or an OO weenie for that matter) that has to review your code and ask you to change it because he has no clue about how 'map' works.
No it's not. Check your facts before posting.
How much time before one eats up the other?
Man, what can take them so long, I mean MacOS was cool in 1984 but now it really start to stink.
It doesn't matter what language you use, as long as you are able to separate HTML from code. Don't use emebeded code like PHP or Embperl, don't use a bunch of printf("$foo") in your code, you will end up with something that only you will be able to understand. You know how many time people ask me to change the size of a font, or the image aligment, or the layout of a form? A lot. With a proper templating system, all you have to do is edit simple HTML. Hey, even a designer could do it. Look for HTML::Template in CPAN, that's the most usefull module ever, heck it's even more usefull than CGI.pm (who wants to write HTML in perl anyway?).
Would you consider it a Victory if 300 000+ persons stopped listening to your music?
With so much poverty around the world, why do you implicate for an organization that make billions every year. Justice for all?
The same group that loses so much money by not selling CDs has 6 albums in the top 100 for the most listened-to CDs on the internet (http://www.cddb.com/top100.html). That makes you think...
I'm this close of burning all of my Metallica CDs, I mean they used to make great music with great attitude, 'And Justice for All..' is IMO one of the best album of the 80's but now all they seem to be able to do is crap both musically and philosophically. This is so sad but I think we should make an example of those bastards and stop listening to their music. At least will have Megadeth and Slayer who also do bad music today but at least try to show some respect for their fan. We should put up a site or something.
I know that IBM make stable machines, but still,
it could happen. I'm just glad it doesn't run NT...
sub cgisplit
{
use CGI;
my $q = new CGI;
my %param;
foreach my $key ($q->param())
{
$param{$key} = $q->param($key);
}
return %param;
}
Lots of software these days are released under multiple licenses. Most of the time (for example
;)
for Ghostscript), the GPL version is the oldest/less enhanced one. Do you support multiple
licensing, do you think that software that is available in an enhanced binarie only version is still free software. What kind of message does that send to the public (free = inferior)?
(By the way thank you for being who you are
Quoting the late Francis Vincent Zappa:
"Java is not dead, it just smells funny"
It was "Number eight" you fool!!!
I mean translate those numbers to pitch and duration and you have an instant hit...
I was talking about the G4 as the machine (the blue thing) not G4 as the processor. I shure hope
someone will market an open PPC box, those processors can shurely scream if they don't have
to run a broken OS (MacOS 9) . As for X it shure looks nice but paying $499.00 for an OS is a bit
outdated. And there are security issues too.
Isn't that the same company that built the G4 so
that it would not allow to run anything else but MacOS. Before opening up the source they might want to open the hardware first. That would be a start.