Personally, I'm not much of a programmer (I gave it up before I was ever done getting a Bacchelor's and went for journalism) and didn't learn much about language design, but I agree; Perl solves problems but it's atrocious. I've learned very little Python but what I have I really like. =) Perl's one of those things that just does a lot of really neat stuff but is uglier than a configure file.
Heh, and someone got modded up for posting Scheme code. I think someone has it out for you, Bruce. I shudder to think what would happen if RMS were to happen along with some elisp examples.
..but I must. I submitted something about the new Star Trek:TMP DVD overhaul. It sounds like it's going to be hugely different from both the former releases; it will actually be FINISHED this time. Instead, we get morons running over hard drives with tanks. *sigh*
Yeah, I know; I complain when other people do this. But I'm starting to see what people are bitching about. =P
So you're here to goad people into modding you down, simply so that you can say "Ha! The fscking moderators don't read the guidelines and actually mod things down!"
Pathetic, that's what it is. The last time I got moderator points I modded only one thing down (5 points, 5 moderations.) The only thing I modded down was something pathetic like you just wrote...flamebait deserves to get modded down.
FYI, Motif used to be used on palmtops too, and with lower memory requirements. "But why run X11 on a palmtop?" It didn't use X11 either...the API was just the same.
Think about it. Troll Tech is a commercial venture. QT is either GPL or QPL (your pick) if you write open software. If you use the QPL version you should be able to use more licenses.
If Troll Tech released QT under the LGPL then they'd just have to go out of business. I can see why that sounds great to an ungrateful student, but to someone who's actually worked for a living, QT sounds like a sweet deal (unless you actually have to pay for it;-)
What's your preference of software license? If you say "LGPL" I'll club you over the head because, despite the fact that the "L" stands for Lesser rather than Library, it's still so restricted that you can only release libraries under it (yeah, I read the license.)
I really want Microsoft to be the dictator of standards. Their standards tend to be Windows-specific; why should we be forced into a 100% Microsoft solution?
If you want to proofread, get a job as an editor. We can see the error. You don't need to post it. I can't make that clear enough. We can see the misspelled words for ourselves. We don't need 10,000 frickin' comments telling us that it's misspelled.
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RMS has nothing to do with open source (much to many peoples' consternation.)
as someone on the advertising side of journalism, I can say that there's something of a love-hate relationship between advertising people and journalists.
The truth is that all journalism needs funding of some sort (in a capitalist society, at least...) and that that source of money generally wants to have some sort of influence on editorial content. Fail to do so, and the source of funds dry up. This is true in the USA even including PBS (in my area, my local PBS station would lose its funding if it didn't show excessive amounts of Lawrence Welk.) Journalists hate that. To allow advertising dollars or other funds to affect their decisions in story writing is unthinkable (at least to some.) In the end, some sort of compromise must be made.
Choose what you will--starve for good journalism, or grow fat and complacent on mediocre drivel. Me, I choose the world of drivel (just kidding.)
Hahahaha...I rather think it should be the opposite. RMS and the Free Software zealots were advocating boycotting KDE due to its Qt base. You can thank Open Source people for making Qt free. Now RMS would have you hold KDE accountable for "past transgressions."
The funny thing is, I've had just the opposite problem with KDE2...and for some reason, many times a segfault in one app will cause a cascade effect, to a point where everything except, of course, the X server dies a horrible death.
Yeah, but the flipside of KDE being C++-only is that someone who knows C++ can pick up some dead KDE project and run with it; if I find some dead project for GNOME written in, say, TOM I won't have a fscking clue and I'll have to learn TOM. There are advantages and disadvantages to both approaches.
And no, I don't think you deserved to be modded down as a troll.
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Personally, I'm not much of a programmer (I gave it up before I was ever done getting a Bacchelor's and went for journalism) and didn't learn much about language design, but I agree; Perl solves problems but it's atrocious. I've learned very little Python but what I have I really like. =) Perl's one of those things that just does a lot of really neat stuff but is uglier than a configure file.
Heh, and someone got modded up for posting Scheme code. I think someone has it out for you, Bruce. I shudder to think what would happen if RMS were to happen along with some elisp examples.
It's only write-only if you're too stupid to understand Scheme.
..but I must. I submitted something about the new Star Trek:TMP DVD overhaul. It sounds like it's going to be hugely different from both the former releases; it will actually be FINISHED this time. Instead, we get morons running over hard drives with tanks. *sigh*
Yeah, I know; I complain when other people do this. But I'm starting to see what people are bitching about. =P
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So you're here to goad people into modding you down, simply so that you can say "Ha! The fscking moderators don't read the guidelines and actually mod things down!"
Pathetic, that's what it is. The last time I got moderator points I modded only one thing down (5 points, 5 moderations.) The only thing I modded down was something pathetic like you just wrote...flamebait deserves to get modded down.
Yeah, me too, but you don't see me posting links to it like an asshole.
I agree. The GPL is far too restrictive. Damn the GPL, it traps us into writing free software.
Surprisingly enough, this should be doable (port GDK to the framebuffer); GNOME would be a problem (extra X11 dependencies) but it could be done too.
Serious programmers only write closed-source software for Windows. Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. =P
reading articles helps; this isn't X based.
FYI, Motif used to be used on palmtops too, and with lower memory requirements. "But why run X11 on a palmtop?" It didn't use X11 either...the API was just the same.
But you're the GNOME troll, right?
;-)
Think about it. Troll Tech is a commercial venture. QT is either GPL or QPL (your pick) if you write open software. If you use the QPL version you should be able to use more licenses.
If Troll Tech released QT under the LGPL then they'd just have to go out of business. I can see why that sounds great to an ungrateful student, but to someone who's actually worked for a living, QT sounds like a sweet deal (unless you actually have to pay for it
What's your preference of software license? If you say "LGPL" I'll club you over the head because, despite the fact that the "L" stands for Lesser rather than Library, it's still so restricted that you can only release libraries under it (yeah, I read the license.)
I really want Microsoft to be the dictator of standards. Their standards tend to be Windows-specific; why should we be forced into a 100% Microsoft solution?
If you want to proofread, get a job as an editor. We can see the error. You don't need to post it. I can't make that clear enough. We can see the misspelled words for ourselves. We don't need 10,000 frickin' comments telling us that it's misspelled.
RMS has nothing to do with open source (much to many peoples' consternation.)
Erm, what's the objection?
Can't stand the fact that you can use QT under pure GPL? Do you require the impure LGPL for some reason?
Bleh...you probably still hold a grudge against Germans for past transgressions.
as someone on the advertising side of journalism, I can say that there's something of a love-hate relationship between advertising people and journalists.
The truth is that all journalism needs funding of some sort (in a capitalist society, at least...) and that that source of money generally wants to have some sort of influence on editorial content. Fail to do so, and the source of funds dry up. This is true in the USA even including PBS (in my area, my local PBS station would lose its funding if it didn't show excessive amounts of Lawrence Welk.) Journalists hate that. To allow advertising dollars or other funds to affect their decisions in story writing is unthinkable (at least to some.) In the end, some sort of compromise must be made.
Choose what you will--starve for good journalism, or grow fat and complacent on mediocre drivel. Me, I choose the world of drivel (just kidding.)
Um yeah, did you happen to notice how many "goat sex!" postings there are here?
Even reading at "0" is intolerable.
>1.Go apologize to RMS.
Hahahaha...I rather think it should be the opposite. RMS and the Free Software zealots were advocating boycotting KDE due to its Qt base. You can thank Open Source people for making Qt free. Now RMS would have you hold KDE accountable for "past transgressions."
If anyone should be apologizing, it's RMS.
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Good. So don't give others a hard time for doing the same. =P
The funny thing is, I've had just the opposite problem with KDE2...and for some reason, many times a segfault in one app will cause a cascade effect, to a point where everything except, of course, the X server dies a horrible death.
Yeah, but the flipside of KDE being C++-only is that someone who knows C++ can pick up some dead KDE project and run with it; if I find some dead project for GNOME written in, say, TOM I won't have a fscking clue and I'll have to learn TOM. There are advantages and disadvantages to both approaches.
And no, I don't think you deserved to be modded down as a troll.
Yeah, I think it sucks being stupid, too.
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