Does the feature list include "Shortcuts that make sense to humans who never used the 30-year old keyboards that were around when RMS was hacking on TEX"?
Until I stop seeing Emacs primers that start with advice to start remapping my keyboard, I'll pass.
Technically, the article has it backwards. The last reading has the most weight. The point is still perfectly valid, though. I just can't prevent myself from being pedantic about it.
Enough other unoriginal things have come along since Java's inception that you can now forget about its own ideological hiccups. You might have missed the memo.
There's a good chance that those older projects were "correctly" written with regards to OO principles. Unfortunately, we have yet to discover the programming methodology that corrects for the standard programmer response to a fix/addition on an aging project: "Ugh. I'll just hack this in. Nobody is going to know, and if they find out, they won't say anything for fear of being charged with doing all the work I'm avoiding."
I refuse to believe that protecttheking.net was available. To suggest that Elvis fans would have let such a domain sit idle is an affront to white trash the world over.
I've always gotten the feeling that the music industry is pissed because they can't strongarm the market price for their commodity anymore. Until the rise of file-sharing, they had a much greater hold on the channels of distribution of their goods, which gave them the ability to artificially inflate the price. There were always people copying songs from the radio, or dubbing from one tape to another, but the loss in quality (and the processes involved) made it more attractive to just buy the music from dealers.
Once CDs became a more mainstream method of music distribution, the quality loss pretty much dropped out of the equation, and the relentless march of technology reduced the complexity of the process and lowered the cost of the necessary hardware, thereby lowering the bar for and increasing the attractiveness of copying music.
Hindsight, being 20/20, paints a fairly clear picture of the way the market adapts to artificially restrictive conditions. In this case, it took several decades, but that isn't always the case.
Emacs may do everything, but I have to suggest that that doesn't mean it does everything well. Given all the pain it's put me through, I'd be so bold as to suggest it doesn't do anything well.
That was harsh. I'm sorry. It shuts down very promptly.
Hey, in the "Flexible Shaft Ratcheting Screwdriver's" defense, you can use it to drive a threaded, helical shaft via torque applied to a slotted protrusion after you're done using it to make steak fries, or whatever else the kids are eating these days.
You know, if we're being pedantic, you had to do exactly the same thing. You had to navigate to the parent of the directory you wanted to 86, then invoke the command to delete the folder. The only difference is that your navigation involved typing, whereas the point-and-clicker got there with a mouse.
Then again, rational argument isn't what/. is about, is it?
So it's popular, has a reasonably good catalog of titles, and is a bomb because the manufacturer is operating at a loss? I'm pretty sure the fact that developers consider it a viable platform (due to the number owned) means that it's been pretty successful. There is an unusual disparity in that its success in the market (re: sales and title availability) has not equated to profit on the part of Microsoft, but that doesn't invalidate the platform itself.
Believe it or not, you don't have to be good at math to learn the fundamentals of programming, in the same way that you don't have to know the complex workings of the internal combustion engine to replace a fan belt or change your oil.
I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one here who did his first programming in elementary school. In my case, it was because I WASN'T good at math, and knew I could figure out how to make the computer do the hard work for me. In effect, I learned one of the most crucial lessons for programmers: Be Lazy.
Personally, I can't stand it and try not to use it, in favor of the more straightforward and less loaded "high ability." But it will be a very long time before "gifted" goes anywhere.
Why do we need a special term? Isn't the word "smart" good enough? I suppose one could use "unusually smart" for kids higher up the chain, if only to differentiate them from the reasonably bright kids who prefer to neglect intellectual development in favor of learning to burp the Pledge of Allegiance.
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Let me guess...there's a shortcut for that as well. Let's see...what would "make sense" to someone who had their mind warped by continual emacs usage?
Ah yes...C-x M-x C-f C-! embrace-emacs-religion
Silly me.
Does the feature list include "Shortcuts that make sense to humans who never used the 30-year old keyboards that were around when RMS was hacking on TEX"?
Until I stop seeing Emacs primers that start with advice to start remapping my keyboard, I'll pass.
How hard is it to automatically translate C code to, say, C++/CLI?
My guess would be less difficult than first suspected, but fairly laborious.
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Technically, the article has it backwards. The last reading has the most weight. The point is still perfectly valid, though. I just can't prevent myself from being pedantic about it.
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C++
HTML
**insert further derived technologies here**
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Enough other unoriginal things have come along since Java's inception that you can now forget about its own ideological hiccups. You might have missed the memo.
feldicus
There's a good chance that those older projects were "correctly" written with regards to OO principles. Unfortunately, we have yet to discover the programming methodology that corrects for the standard programmer response to a fix/addition on an aging project: "Ugh. I'll just hack this in. Nobody is going to know, and if they find out, they won't say anything for fear of being charged with doing all the work I'm avoiding."
feldicus
I refuse to believe that protecttheking.net was available. To suggest that Elvis fans would have let such a domain sit idle is an affront to white trash the world over.
feldicus
I've always gotten the feeling that the music industry is pissed because they can't strongarm the market price for their commodity anymore. Until the rise of file-sharing, they had a much greater hold on the channels of distribution of their goods, which gave them the ability to artificially inflate the price. There were always people copying songs from the radio, or dubbing from one tape to another, but the loss in quality (and the processes involved) made it more attractive to just buy the music from dealers.
Once CDs became a more mainstream method of music distribution, the quality loss pretty much dropped out of the equation, and the relentless march of technology reduced the complexity of the process and lowered the cost of the necessary hardware, thereby lowering the bar for and increasing the attractiveness of copying music.
Hindsight, being 20/20, paints a fairly clear picture of the way the market adapts to artificially restrictive conditions. In this case, it took several decades, but that isn't always the case.
feldicus
Emacs may do everything, but I have to suggest that that doesn't mean it does everything well. Given all the pain it's put me through, I'd be so bold as to suggest it doesn't do anything well.
That was harsh. I'm sorry. It shuts down very promptly.
feldicus
Something wonderful.
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Hey, in the "Flexible Shaft Ratcheting Screwdriver's" defense, you can use it to drive a threaded, helical shaft via torque applied to a slotted protrusion after you're done using it to make steak fries, or whatever else the kids are eating these days.
feldicus
Listen, if you're not interested in the type of supercomputer used to suggest the next Weird Al parody, you can just get the fuck out!
feldicus
You know, if we're being pedantic, you had to do exactly the same thing. You had to navigate to the parent of the directory you wanted to 86, then invoke the command to delete the folder. The only difference is that your navigation involved typing, whereas the point-and-clicker got there with a mouse.
Then again, rational argument isn't what /. is about, is it?
feldicus
So it's popular, has a reasonably good catalog of titles, and is a bomb because the manufacturer is operating at a loss? I'm pretty sure the fact that developers consider it a viable platform (due to the number owned) means that it's been pretty successful. There is an unusual disparity in that its success in the market (re: sales and title availability) has not equated to profit on the part of Microsoft, but that doesn't invalidate the platform itself.
feldicus
That seems roughly analogous to buying the top-tier, premium gas for a third-hand 1972 Pinto.
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Other Television-Changing Shows
Reading Rainbow
Captain Planet
H. R. Pufnstuf
Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers
Will and Grace
That 70's Show
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One has to wonder about the feasibility of a protocol that strobed the access point in time with illegally-downloaded music.
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Your house is radioactive! Run!
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You neglected to mention the wattage drop incurred when the flux capacitance of the dish is orthogonal to its reset potential.
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Digging designation canceled: Warm stone located.
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Damn kids with their rock and roll rap music and their integrated development environments...
feldicus
Believe it or not, you don't have to be good at math to learn the fundamentals of programming, in the same way that you don't have to know the complex workings of the internal combustion engine to replace a fan belt or change your oil.
I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one here who did his first programming in elementary school. In my case, it was because I WASN'T good at math, and knew I could figure out how to make the computer do the hard work for me. In effect, I learned one of the most crucial lessons for programmers: Be Lazy.
feldicus
Personally, I can't stand it and try not to use it, in favor of the more straightforward and less loaded "high ability." But it will be a very long time before "gifted" goes anywhere.
Why do we need a special term? Isn't the word "smart" good enough? I suppose one could use "unusually smart" for kids higher up the chain, if only to differentiate them from the reasonably bright kids who prefer to neglect intellectual development in favor of learning to burp the Pledge of Allegiance.
feldicus
It's things like that monstrosity that reinforce my belief that learning the ins and outs of regular expressions isn't worth the work.
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