Those of use who are computer scientists do not have this problem... I guess because the ACM and IEEE make their indexes crawlable, if not the article texts themselves (although these are often also mirrored somewhere freely accessible)...
This is just not true. Cyclone give the programmer the _option_ to use a garbage collector. However the collector can also be excluded from the executable entirely.
Cyclone also provides provides region-based memory allocation. This is an explicit allocation/deallocation scheme where the user specifies object lifetimes in a compiler-verifiable way.
In general it should be kept in mind what Cyclone seems to be targeted at. That is: C code is still used to write important systems code where other languages (eg Java, etc) just won't do for many reasons. These other languages mostly suck because they don't give the programmer direct control over memory layout (essential for systems programming) and often also sacrifice perdictable performance (read garbage collection). Cyclone seems intended to remedy this. You get a much safer C with all the good features left in and a bunch of cool extra's from ML thrown in for good measure, since the author is an ex-ML guy.
Cyclone seems to address a real need in the systems programming community, which is that we still have idiots writing software that everyone uses...
The movie felt exactly as I though D&D should feel. Like a handful of adolescents spending an afternoon roleplaying. The plot felt like a normal guy (the dungeonmaster) could come up with it mostly as he went along, which makes me feel less bad that many parts felt like scenes of other movies. Although I agree there could have been more/better CG, I think the movie did a very admirable job convenying what the "average D&D adventure" probably would look like from the "inside".
Imagine how aweful a movie that tried to take itself more seriously would have been. It would almost certainly not have satisfied the self-declared "purists", and would have been even less understandable to the rest of the audience.
I think you should save your dissatisfaction for "Lord of the Rings", which is actual a wonderful story, and will undoubtedly be ugly and mangled beyond recognition in its film rendition.
If these thing can have the same sort of effect as the chop reducing things they put in fancy swimming pools, people might really want to install them.
I can just imagine Ney York harbor without all of the chop, because these things absorb the wave energy. Would be really cool, and save a couple bucks of the city energy bill.
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And I thought Ged was supposed to be black!
Those of use who are computer scientists do not have this problem... I guess because the ACM and IEEE make their indexes crawlable, if not the article texts themselves (although these are often also mirrored somewhere freely accessible)...
I know Webbink personally and he went to school in North Carolina (where RedHat is BTW). And I am pretty sure he never interned at MS either.
Cyclone also provides provides region-based memory allocation. This is an explicit allocation/deallocation scheme where the user specifies object lifetimes in a compiler-verifiable way.
In general it should be kept in mind what Cyclone seems to be targeted at. That is: C code is still used to write important systems code where other languages (eg Java, etc) just won't do for many reasons. These other languages mostly suck because they don't give the programmer direct control over memory layout (essential for systems programming) and often also sacrifice perdictable performance (read garbage collection). Cyclone seems intended to remedy this. You get a much safer C with all the good features left in and a bunch of cool extra's from ML thrown in for good measure, since the author is an ex-ML guy.
Cyclone seems to address a real need in the systems programming community, which is that we still have idiots writing software that everyone uses...
Imagine how aweful a movie that tried to take itself more seriously would have been. It would almost certainly not have satisfied the self-declared "purists", and would have been even less understandable to the rest of the audience.
I think you should save your dissatisfaction for "Lord of the Rings", which is actual a wonderful story, and will undoubtedly be ugly and mangled beyond recognition in its film rendition.
I can just imagine Ney York harbor without all of the chop, because these things absorb the wave energy. Would be really cool, and save a couple bucks of the city energy bill.