If your goal is to have useful acronyms on your resume, don't drop out after your introductory courses. Take some advanced courses that involve the specific languages you want.
I don't know about "original", but I can go back as far as RPC 3.9. They didn't even have a copyright notice. The license was almost entirely a disclaimer.
The consequences of bad data being sent by such a network presumably are limited. I would be extremely surprised if the controller for an individual light could be changed to any old color at any moment.
In the country I live in, courts are quite free to legislate. For example, software patents were completely illegal 20 years ago. With no new legislation, only bogus court decisions, they're now legal. If that isn't legislation, what is?
Would have been more funny if they had made it so only for this article.
.NET not smacking Sun hard enough. Bummer
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Java v. .Net?
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I was hoping that.NET would slap Sun hard enough to make
them improve multi-language support in the JVM. At least put in the
tail-call support that Guy Steele originally wanted. However, from
quotes in the article it seems Sun isn't getting enough heat.
"No shop that's already Java-established is contemplating.NET. Java
is holding its own," [Gartner's Mark Driver] stated.
Although this two-world reality should come as some comfort to either party, Sun Microsystems doesn't always acknowledge it. "Sun takes an arrogant tone [at times] that Java has won the war," he explained.
...
Don't Web services change all this? According to another Gartner survey, 58 percent of developers are currently developing Web servicesto which Driver cheekily added that they probably only think they are. In any event, when it comes to the technologies used today for building Web services, 37 percent claimed they were using.NET, while 76 percent said they were using Java.
What's the relationship between openacs and java. Didn't ACS 4 introduce some java into the mix? Is ACSJ the only option for people who want something like ACS but with java integration?
I downloaded bss_examples-1.0.tar.gz from the web site, but a lot of the files seem strangely corrupted, e.g. spaces before > where there shouldn't be. Makes HTML look funny and Perl not work.
I've been thinking I'd like to get the qlitech king whenever I have the money. Pre-installed Debian sounds like a win. Anybody have experience buying through them?
Not being familiar with autolisp, I did a google search for "autolisp
examples". The top
hit described autolisp as follows:
AutoLISP is the scripting language for AutoCAD by Autodesk, a very
crippled dynamic Lisp-1, based on very early xlisp sources (v1.0),
posted by David Betz on usenet (alt.sources), and without proper
copyright laws that time used by Autodesk as their free scripting
language. There's an old Byte article about that.
To keep the language simple, some typical features such as macros,
vectors, structs, destructive operations and objects were left
out. Memory was low then in the late 80'ies. Since then the language
itself was not improved at all, to keep things simple and to keep
backwards portability....
By "dynamic" I assume it means dynamically scoped. Lexical scoping
is an important feature, introduced by Scheme in the 1970s, that today
is the unquestioned best way to scope variables. Perl and Python were
both dynamically scoped when first released, but switched to lexical
scoping later.
Macros let you customize the language to specific application
domains, resulting in very readable code. They are a feature that is
difficult to duplicate in languages without lisp-like syntax. C
preprocessor macros are nothing by comparison.
Autolisp missed out on a lot by not having macros. Also objects.
The Common Lisp Object System (CLOS) is one of CL's most vaunted
features.
I'm not saying that a LISP dialect would have been better for this
particular project. It certainly fails on the "Similarity to C"
qualification. Just don't take your experience with autolisp as
indicative of what LISP programming is like.
Can you supply more detail on your experience with "lisp and its friends"? What implementation were you using? What kind of apps? I've been quite happy using Scheme in web apps for the past few years.
GPLed code helps my company's bottom line, but we sell "ancillary services", in our case, mutual funds. If you only wanted to count software license vendors, shoulda said so in your question.
Google also said money alone would not dictate placement, even in its
paid links. The rate at which users click on a paid link also will be
part of its formula, the idea being that the more relevant the ad, the
more clicks it should generate, and therefore the higher it should
appear in the results.
From this quote, I gather you shouldn't click on the top "sponsored link" at google if you want to buy something. Their employees will likely have a hard time taking your order due to RSI.
Given that Perl imitates Lisp and Scheme more closely with each release, that GC made it into the mainstream with Java, and that Python eventually got lexical scoping, maybe you should revisit your idea about whether what they teach in school is what will build the future.
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distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are
prohibited by law if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by
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If the injunction is granted, it sets a strong precedent for certain parts of the GPL. If the injunction is denied, it may be for reasons other than any part of the GPL being invalid.
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If your goal is to have useful acronyms on your resume, don't drop out after your introductory courses. Take some advanced courses that involve the specific languages you want.
I think you're misreading the advisory. The bug in xdr_array.c does not stem from the calloc() bug. It's just that the same mistake caused both bugs.
I don't know about "original", but I can go back as far as RPC 3.9. They didn't even have a copyright notice. The license was almost entirely a disclaimer.
The consequences of bad data being sent by such a network presumably are limited. I would be extremely surprised if the controller for an individual light could be changed to any old color at any moment.
In the country I live in, courts are quite free to legislate. For example, software patents were completely illegal 20 years ago. With no new legislation, only bogus court decisions, they're now legal. If that isn't legislation, what is?
BRL has a test suite, as does Kawa. I don't think test suites in free software are so uncommon.
Confusion may arise from his title (as listed in the MIT directory), "J N Maguire Prof Of Info Tech".
Posted on the wrong article. I was checking to see if anon posting was disabled for other articles and got confused.
Would have been more funny if they had made it so only for this article.
I was hoping that .NET would slap Sun hard enough to make
them improve multi-language support in the JVM. At least put in the
tail-call support that Guy Steele originally wanted. However, from
quotes in the article it seems Sun isn't getting enough heat.
What's the relationship between openacs and java. Didn't ACS 4 introduce some java into the mix? Is ACSJ the only option for people who want something like ACS but with java integration?
I'm a lone voice for linux in a financial firm. Where can I get more info on growing linux use in finance?
I downloaded bss_examples-1.0.tar.gz from the web site, but a lot of the files seem strangely corrupted, e.g. spaces before > where there shouldn't be. Makes HTML look funny and Perl not work.
I've been thinking I'd like to get the qlitech king whenever I have the money. Pre-installed Debian sounds like a win. Anybody have experience buying through them?
By "dynamic" I assume it means dynamically scoped. Lexical scoping is an important feature, introduced by Scheme in the 1970s, that today is the unquestioned best way to scope variables. Perl and Python were both dynamically scoped when first released, but switched to lexical scoping later.
Macros let you customize the language to specific application domains, resulting in very readable code. They are a feature that is difficult to duplicate in languages without lisp-like syntax. C preprocessor macros are nothing by comparison.
Autolisp missed out on a lot by not having macros. Also objects. The Common Lisp Object System (CLOS) is one of CL's most vaunted features.
I'm not saying that a LISP dialect would have been better for this particular project. It certainly fails on the "Similarity to C" qualification. Just don't take your experience with autolisp as indicative of what LISP programming is like.
Can you supply more detail on your experience with "lisp and its friends"? What implementation were you using? What kind of apps? I've been quite happy using Scheme in web apps for the past few years.
...Microsoft having to write software themselves because the code they would otherwise steal is GPLed.
GPLed code helps my company's bottom line, but we sell "ancillary services", in our case, mutual funds. If you only wanted to count software license vendors, shoulda said so in your question.
Yes, I'm sure that name is correct.
Did they consider that other events in 2001 besides increased piracy that might have led to people buying fewer CDs?
See comments at the end of FEDERAL APPEALS COURT HOLDS SHRINK WRAP LICENSE UNENFORCEABLE on this topic, written by someone who doesn't have to add "IANAL". :-)
Given that Perl imitates Lisp and Scheme more closely with each release, that GC made it into the mainstream with Java, and that Python eventually got lexical scoping, maybe you should revisit your idea about whether what they teach in school is what will build the future.
If the injunction is granted, it sets a strong precedent for certain parts of the GPL. If the injunction is denied, it may be for reasons other than any part of the GPL being invalid.