So I'd be pretty surprised if this were true... and if it is... lol, noobs.
Back when I was in college I had a monster of a car from the 1960's, in near mint shape with a whopping 425 CuIn (that's 7L in today's parlance) V8 (that's two inline 4's joined at the hip in today's parlance). One night when I thought I was alone on a country back road, I decided to see what it had off the line at a stop sign. It had quite a lot and several left over. Alas, as the tires finished skidding a pair of headlights came on in a parking lot I was unaware of and proceded to pull me over, with the assistance of some flashing blue and red lights. After complimenting me on a true classic automobile, the deputy let me off with a warning and told me if I wanted to be an asshole, to go do it somewhere else.
I had a C64 for years and at one time was slaving it to an Apple ][ with a nifty little interface, which I still have in a box somewhere. It was a dream to hack and play games on, despite having a mainframe at work which could do things I could only dream of at home (such as load/save from/to a HDD). My brother bought a 128 but never did anything with it as he wasn't a coder and had no idea what I was doing. Eventually I'd move to an Amiga 500 and then to a 2000 (which I still have.)
PL/I pioneered the free-form syntax used by C, C++, PHP, Java, C# and most other modern languages. What other sins has it committed?
PL/1 incorporated all manner of ugly ways of doing things, borrowing some I/O from COBOL or having something else hacked into it. Inexplicably I had to go back to using PL/1 on one system implementation because the I/O library could hack large I/O buffers, where most other compiler libraries were incapable and was reminded what a sloppy mess of a language it was. You could do just about anything, but it didn't do much of it elegantly. Unless you documented heavily it was difficult to come back to and figure why you did something a particular way.
One fellow I knew who worked at IBM shunned it for most of the same reasons, it was a quick and dirty language, which was a dumping ground of interfaces.
At the time you had... Fortran... and Assembler. COBOL was a godsend to the business community. Because of it companies actually invested in computer equipment to do things... that investment reduced the cost and increased its capabilities. Eventually allowing the creation of that smart phone in your pocket. If it wasn't for COBOL it is doubtful that companies would have made the investments.
Having programed in both COBOL and Fortran... I'll take COBOL for anything business related.
Yes, it's verbose. But, it was a product of it's time. And quite the amazing language if you know what you are doing with it.
Anyone who has actually been suffered to write business applications in FORTRAN IV* would rather be disemboweled by a pack of rabid were-weasels than have to do that again and COBOL would appear to be a gift from Heaven.
I began my education with, what I considered being taught a load of dead or dying languages, while Object Oriented languages were just on the horizon and Pascal and c were gaining degrees of acceptance. c is still around, but I haven't heard from Pascal in ages - it was fiddly, like Modula2 and seemed to embrace the wordiness of COBOL over the conciseness of c. I've converted systems written in COBOL and at least they were readable - what the coder was doing. FORTRAN business apps are nearly unintelligible.
I think we can blame all the faults of COBOL on the fact that she wanted it to be human readable by business managers. What would your programming language look like if the Pointy-Haired Boss had to be able to understand it?
thank you for releasing a press statement claiming that you are standing up, in a way that mollifies those concerned about their privacy, while lacking any substantive evidence of resistance
American corporations, and these 5, in particular, have shown a history of not minding deceitful marketing in the slightest. I feel no compelling reason to trust them.
Facebook is becoming a serious pain to use - reordering news thread, pop-up ads, reloads of ads in the right margin, etc.
Aside that, when I look at something on a website I'm particularly irritated to see facebook plugging the same thing.
The House has got it spot on. Now for the Senate and President.
It's pretty much a fact that the Dems (of which I have been a lifelong member) both own the Senate, and are owned by many of the people (universities, high tech, and so on) that value patents.
The Senate will not pass this, and what a shame.
With a 325 - 91 margin it's got to make more than a few feel a bit uncomfortable about opposing it. It's also not the Apple vs Samsung sort of patent trolling, it's the scum who keep filling those courthouses in Eastern Texas.
It's so much worse than just Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher calling Mandela a "terrorist".
When congress passed anti-apartheid sanctions, Reagan vetoed them, and then actively called the Senators before the veto override vote to try to convince them to let it stand. Congress went ahead and overrode the veto, giving Reagan one of his worst political defeats as president. It was the only time in the 20th century when congress overrode a president's veto of a foreign policy bill.
Reagan still refused to enforce the sanctions against the apartheid regime, asking South African President Botha to call congress himself and lobby to have the sanctions lifted.
Reagan's successor, George H W Bush, included in his platform a promise to enforce the sanctions to their fullest extent, which he ultimately did.
Mandela's legacy will ring out long after Reagan and Thatcher's have been relegated to the trash.
I continue to feel Reagan is overrated. Mandela was the Gandhi of our time.
If they were good enough for the Flintstones they're good enough for a Senator!
Yeah, but it takes weeks to build up the callouses necessary for one trip to the quarry and home. You don't see all of Fred's down-time while he grows those callouses back.
For my money, throwing a rock on a rope out the window is the last word in brake technology.
In most states, Theft under $5 is just a ticket... Theft under 5 cents is a PR nightmare.:)
Yeah, because nothing gets the attention of the news like someone stealing a nickel's worth of something, while people are all around stealing much more, defacing public/private buildings, driving 15 mph over the speed limit by the thousands, etc. Y'know, ordinary every day, acceptable crime.
Don't tell me! Men and women might be different!?!?!?!?!?
Reminds me of that Pop-psychology of Men Are From Mars and Women Are From Venus - granted that was a load of BS by an utter fraud, he did indicate men and women approach things from different angles. I wonder how cross-cultural this study is.
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So I'd be pretty surprised if this were true... and if it is... lol, noobs.
Back when I was in college I had a monster of a car from the 1960's, in near mint shape with a whopping 425 CuIn (that's 7L in today's parlance) V8 (that's two inline 4's joined at the hip in today's parlance). One night when I thought I was alone on a country back road, I decided to see what it had off the line at a stop sign. It had quite a lot and several left over. Alas, as the tires finished skidding a pair of headlights came on in a parking lot I was unaware of and proceded to pull me over, with the assistance of some flashing blue and red lights. After complimenting me on a true classic automobile, the deputy let me off with a warning and told me if I wanted to be an asshole, to go do it somewhere else.
I miss that car.
If you think atheists drive evangelical conservatives nuts, you ain't seen nothing yet.
The bible-belters have been so into denying gays & lesbians their rights they've been completely overlooking these people.
It's time for some perspective, with a side of crow.
I had a C64 for years and at one time was slaving it to an Apple ][ with a nifty little interface, which I still have in a box somewhere. It was a dream to hack and play games on, despite having a mainframe at work which could do things I could only dream of at home (such as load/save from/to a HDD). My brother bought a 128 but never did anything with it as he wasn't a coder and had no idea what I was doing. Eventually I'd move to an Amiga 500 and then to a 2000 (which I still have.)
PL/I pioneered the free-form syntax used by C, C++, PHP, Java, C# and most other modern languages.
What other sins has it committed?
PL/1 incorporated all manner of ugly ways of doing things, borrowing some I/O from COBOL or having something else hacked into it. Inexplicably I had to go back to using PL/1 on one system implementation because the I/O library could hack large I/O buffers, where most other compiler libraries were incapable and was reminded what a sloppy mess of a language it was. You could do just about anything, but it didn't do much of it elegantly. Unless you documented heavily it was difficult to come back to and figure why you did something a particular way.
One fellow I knew who worked at IBM shunned it for most of the same reasons, it was a quick and dirty language, which was a dumping ground of interfaces.
Jobs are drying up so fast yet the population just keeps growing.
Hey, someone still needs to feed and care for baby robots!
Ruby and Cucumber (at least for your test code)?
How about something from at least the 1960's or 70's? I can still hear those card punching machines - tick-tick-tack-tick-tick...
At the time you had... Fortran... and Assembler. COBOL was a godsend to the business community. Because of it companies actually invested in computer equipment to do things... that investment reduced the cost and increased its capabilities. Eventually allowing the creation of that smart phone in your pocket. If it wasn't for COBOL it is doubtful that companies would have made the investments.
Having programed in both COBOL and Fortran... I'll take COBOL for anything business related.
Yes, it's verbose. But, it was a product of it's time. And quite the amazing language if you know what you are doing with it.
Anyone who has actually been suffered to write business applications in FORTRAN IV* would rather be disemboweled by a pack of rabid were-weasels than have to do that again and COBOL would appear to be a gift from Heaven.
I began my education with, what I considered being taught a load of dead or dying languages, while Object Oriented languages were just on the horizon and Pascal and c were gaining degrees of acceptance. c is still around, but I haven't heard from Pascal in ages - it was fiddly, like Modula2 and seemed to embrace the wordiness of COBOL over the conciseness of c. I've converted systems written in COBOL and at least they were readable - what the coder was doing. FORTRAN business apps are nearly unintelligible.
* note: use of all caps
I think we can blame all the faults of COBOL on the fact that she wanted it to be human readable by business managers. What would your programming language look like if the Pointy-Haired Boss had to be able to understand it?
Let us not even broach the sins of PL/1
is much of the modern computing world.
Without her Jobs, Gates, Zuckerberg, Bezos, etc. would not be where they are today.
* this is in no way to diminish the other pioneers in the field - Touring, von Newman, von Lovelace, etc...
We stand upon the shoulders of giants - paraphrased from Bernard of Chartres
thank you for releasing a press statement claiming that you are standing up, in a way that mollifies those concerned about their privacy, while lacking any substantive evidence of resistance
American corporations, and these 5, in particular, have shown a history of not minding deceitful marketing in the slightest. I feel no compelling reason to trust them.
Facebook is becoming a serious pain to use - reordering news thread, pop-up ads, reloads of ads in the right margin, etc.
Aside that, when I look at something on a website I'm particularly irritated to see facebook plugging the same thing.
We've read recently that the NSA types are becoming disaffected by their jobs.
So letting them play WoW on company time will help with that, eh?
More like...
"is your elf now or has ever been a member of the bolshevist glorious workers party opposed to trollish bourgeois oppressors?"
I think they should change the "Reactive" to something like "Proactive" as Reactive has such a negative connotation.
It's late on Friday, lots of plans for the weekend, but need to hit a few stores on the way home and maybe top of the tank ...
then it hits, "Oh, you're still here we need WHUMP (massive request hits the inbox) kthxbaihavagudwkendlol" ... yuh.
Complex applications from simple declarative statements?
I have a button you can push and it will create an app for you.
George Jetson, have you been playing with the time machine at Spacely Sprockets again?
The House has got it spot on. Now for the Senate and President.
It's pretty much a fact that the Dems (of which I have been a lifelong member) both own the Senate, and are owned by many of the people (universities, high tech, and so on) that value patents.
The Senate will not pass this, and what a shame.
With a 325 - 91 margin it's got to make more than a few feel a bit uncomfortable about opposing it. It's also not the Apple vs Samsung sort of patent trolling, it's the scum who keep filling those courthouses in Eastern Texas.
The House has got it spot on. Now for the Senate and President.
It's so much worse than just Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher calling Mandela a "terrorist".
When congress passed anti-apartheid sanctions, Reagan vetoed them, and then actively called the Senators before the veto override vote to try to convince them to let it stand. Congress went ahead and overrode the veto, giving Reagan one of his worst political defeats as president. It was the only time in the 20th century when congress overrode a president's veto of a foreign policy bill.
Reagan still refused to enforce the sanctions against the apartheid regime, asking South African President Botha to call congress himself and lobby to have the sanctions lifted.
Reagan's successor, George H W Bush, included in his platform a promise to enforce the sanctions to their fullest extent, which he ultimately did.
Mandela's legacy will ring out long after Reagan and Thatcher's have been relegated to the trash.
I continue to feel Reagan is overrated. Mandela was the Gandhi of our time.
How about just enough to do your own Blinkenlights?
Instant Karma is gonna get ya...
Justice, like vengeance is to be served cold - dead cold.
Playing the devil's advocate, when was the last time you got sued for malpractice for bugs in your code?
SHHHHH! Don't give lawyers ideas!
Fear the unknown !!
The reality is Bitcoin is stateless so China can't exert influence on it. Scares them, it does. Yes.
How come we only see bitcoin stories on slashdot?
How come there's no stories about Litecoin, Namecoin, etc.? They both have "billion dollar" values, too.
Yeah, but Bitcoin is the new Honey Badger. I saw the sign along the Lawrence Expressway in Sunnyvale, California, so it must be true!
I like manual brakes.
If they were good enough for the Flintstones they're good enough for a Senator!
Yeah, but it takes weeks to build up the callouses necessary for one trip to the quarry and home. You don't see all of Fred's down-time while he grows those callouses back.
For my money, throwing a rock on a rope out the window is the last word in brake technology.
He's obviously in the pocket of Big Oil.
He stole the script for Fast and Furious 8.
In most states, Theft under $5 is just a ticket... Theft under 5 cents is a PR nightmare. :)
Yeah, because nothing gets the attention of the news like someone stealing a nickel's worth of something, while people are all around stealing much more, defacing public/private buildings, driving 15 mph over the speed limit by the thousands, etc. Y'know, ordinary every day, acceptable crime.
Don't tell me! Men and women might be different!?!?!?!?!?
Reminds me of that Pop-psychology of Men Are From Mars and Women Are From Venus - granted that was a load of BS by an utter fraud, he did indicate men and women approach things from different angles. I wonder how cross-cultural this study is.