Despite being an excellent language, Eiffel didn't win the programming language popularity competition. It doesn't have the critical mass needed to get good third-party library support.
.NET places emphasis on interoperability between languages. This is of course just what Eiffel needs. For once, on.NET at least, Eiffel will be a first class citizen.
Other people besides MS are doing component based software, but MS seems to have the most coherent plan the moment (I'm just a simple in-the-trenches programmer. CORBA is mostly just confusing to me. Java The Platform doesn't encourage support for languages other than Java The Language). It's not something I'm happy to say, but it looks to me that MS are going to eat everyone else's lunches. Again.
It's sad that Eiffel will have to lop off a few limbs to fit in with.NET, but it's probably in Eiffel's best interests.
Red? White? Is that some kind of in-joke? There's no point in being precise if no one understands what you're saying.
Anyway, that piece by Katz was pretty short and precise. It's a big jump from his earlier, stream-of-conciousness stuff here on slasdot. He's improving; perhaps he listens to some of the more thoughtful criticism on these forums.
The fact that older people are using email shows a great deal of flexibility and cabability. Most people when facing some unfamiliar technology will be a bit apprehensive and will need some encouragement. If someone were to ask to milk a sheep (or whatever it was they did in those days), I would find a four hour training session in sheep milking beneficial.
In other words, if a girl walks down a dark street, in a bikini, in the bad part of town, I think it's pretty easy to conclude that it's partly her fault.
Are you saying that's an example of what Heinlein meant by "partly her fault"? Just asking, I didn't finish reading that book. It's pretty hard to tell what he meant from just that one line in isolation.
I couldn't get it to look like L'Hospital's rule. I even tried squinting at it. One thing's for sure, it's not a symbol from the Propositional Calculus, which would have been the right calculus for the job at hand.
There's some truth to it. Although, I like to think of it more along the lines of people who chose not to hack it, rather than people who can't.
I started off in physics, then switched completely to math, partly because I found the math more interesting and wanted to learn the fundamentals of it, but also partly because I couldn't hack the physics:)
My hat goes off to the phyicists: learning two difficult things at the same time requires a some serious brain power.
The QNX Realtime Platform has virtual memory. I have a 128MB swap file on my machine.
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It has two USB ports. You could always plug in a USB to ethernet adapter. And cable modems can plug into USB.
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What's DND? Dungeons and Dragons? I think NetHack is available for QNX RTP.
If you mean Drag and Drop, it does have it. At least, it's documented in the Photon programmer's manual; so if it isn't there right now, it's coming soon.
But you get fuzzy video with a long monitor cable.
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And later, the novel, when it was a new thing (18th century I think), was widely considered to be a corrupting influence. Reading novels would overheat your brain or somesuch.
The PowerPC architecture has never really become well known, mainly because at the time it was released Apple was in a tailspin. Unfortunately, because it is most associated with Apple, it got tainted by Apple's situation. It was never considered a contender, so people forgot about it.
There's more to it than that. There used to be a few companies that made Power PC computers. Power Computing was one. They made faster and cheaper machines than Apple. This was very embarrassing for Apple, and Apple wasn't able to compete, so Steve refused to license MacOS to them. Since there was no "mainstream" OS that could run on these machines, there was very little demand for them.
When was the last time you looked? Perhaps things have changed since then. The GNU Eiffel compiler, SmallEiffel, in particular, has a reputation for producing small, fast binaries.
Because an apostrophe indicates a contraction. [...]
No, TLA (for example) is already in its contracted form, adding an apostrophe when pluralizing it isn't necessary. (Supposing that it would make sense to pluralize it.)
Nowhere is this truer than on Slashdot. Aaargh! Reminds me of the liar paradox.
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Other people besides MS are doing component based software, but MS seems to have the most coherent plan the moment (I'm just a simple in-the-trenches programmer. CORBA is mostly just confusing to me. Java The Platform doesn't encourage support for languages other than Java The Language). It's not something I'm happy to say, but it looks to me that MS are going to eat everyone else's lunches. Again.
It's sad that Eiffel will have to lop off a few limbs to fit in with .NET, but it's probably in Eiffel's best interests.
Apart from nmake, you can call Visual Studio from the command line to do building. That's how we've got it set up here. Seems to work.
Anyway, that piece by Katz was pretty short and precise. It's a big jump from his earlier, stream-of-conciousness stuff here on slasdot. He's improving; perhaps he listens to some of the more thoughtful criticism on these forums.
The fact that older people are using email shows a great deal of flexibility and cabability. Most people when facing some unfamiliar technology will be a bit apprehensive and will need some encouragement. If someone were to ask to milk a sheep (or whatever it was they did in those days), I would find a four hour training session in sheep milking beneficial.
Are you saying that's an example of what Heinlein meant by "partly her fault"? Just asking, I didn't finish reading that book. It's pretty hard to tell what he meant from just that one line in isolation.
I couldn't get it to look like L'Hospital's rule. I even tried squinting at it. One thing's for sure, it's not a symbol from the Propositional Calculus, which would have been the right calculus for the job at hand.
I started off in physics, then switched completely to math, partly because I found the math more interesting and wanted to learn the fundamentals of it, but also partly because I couldn't hack the physics :)
My hat goes off to the phyicists: learning two difficult things at the same time requires a some serious brain power.
Yeh, probably. Maybe it was named after Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, the guy who discovered X rays.
You consider QNX RTP to be, technologically speaking, lame shit? Ha ha ha ha ha. You are funny.
There's a sentence that needs a comma somewhere ...
Even though Eiffel is not widely used, there are important principles that can be learned from it. Learning Eiffel is not a waste of time.
The QNX Realtime Platform has virtual memory. I have a 128MB swap file on my machine.
It has two USB ports. You could always plug in a USB to ethernet adapter. And cable modems can plug into USB.
If you mean Drag and Drop, it does have it. At least, it's documented in the Photon programmer's manual; so if it isn't there right now, it's coming soon.
It can run unhosted. Yes it's an OS.
But you get fuzzy video with a long monitor cable.
And later, the novel, when it was a new thing (18th century I think), was widely considered to be a corrupting influence. Reading novels would overheat your brain or somesuch.
Nah, in brief moment of clarity from his or her crack-addled state, the moderator realized, rightly, that the post wasn't funny.
hahaha hah ah aha ha! ... I don't get it.
What are these machines?
Could get a litttle dull, since the objects move ``across the surface at an almost imperceptible snail's pace''.
There's more to it than that. There used to be a few companies that made Power PC computers. Power Computing was one. They made faster and cheaper machines than Apple. This was very embarrassing for Apple, and Apple wasn't able to compete, so Steve refused to license MacOS to them. Since there was no "mainstream" OS that could run on these machines, there was very little demand for them.
When was the last time you looked? Perhaps things have changed since then. The GNU Eiffel compiler, SmallEiffel, in particular, has a reputation for producing small, fast binaries.
No, TLA (for example) is already in its contracted form, adding an apostrophe when pluralizing it isn't necessary. (Supposing that it would make sense to pluralize it.)
Nowhere is this truer than on Slashdot. Aaargh! Reminds me of the liar paradox.
I'll have to think about that one ...
Why would you want to do that? You shouldn't believe everything you're told.