If you consider Rotor is open source the Java has the same level open source-ness and this whole post is dust. You can download Sun Java source code, not a crippled implementation.
There are some interesting points, but others are nonsense. "needs to position its own (Open Source) NetBeans and rival IBM's Eclipse as mere IDEs that support the Ant way of building applications.". Is publicy know by anyone interested that almost every major IDE supports Ant. " Sun can lend credibility to Mozilla and XUL.". As much as I like Mozilla (I'm using it right now) I don't know if anyone could do that. This is just an order of magnitud above ESR lowly comment but it still missing the target.
I hate racists. We should put all racists in a train and gas them all.
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Computers are deterministic
Oh god, a computer calvinist!
Let me tell you about the group of girls I hear telling the profesor how they were debugging the timing loop to measure an analogic signal, stepping through the loop code in the debugger. Free will kills determinism!
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I like your methodology and I would apply it in the case I do any debugging. I don't need it right now, because I didn't found any bugs to fix. It may be related to not doing any testing. Testing is dangerous, something may break. The only maxim I need is "if it compiles, it works". Modern compilers check your program, if I would make some silly error it just catches at sight. And static type checking guarantees the program works right allways. I never look the code again once it compiles. Isn't programming wonderful? I have to leave now, I have to deliver more quality software.
I think is not debatable. Of course I could be wrong. What others think about this is not just the opinions of individuals, so I should not care what you think. But your opinion is important. Really.
At least with Firebird the database is in one file, I don't even want to know what My(your?)Sql does with databases files... I said I don't want to know!
"It used to be a collection of scripts on top of RCS, but it's had it's own back end for a while now."
Which just happens to implement the same RCS and diff functionality. For me is better that way, I prefer sharing behaviour by reusing libraries than by executing programs.
But Smalltalk was never called a scripting language. And scripting is programming, though not every program is script. Or is it? I need some very good definitions here. Arghh! If only we used our programming talents for GW-BASIC nothing of this would had happened!
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That pretty much the situation now according to Sun.
"I don't see that happening with C, C++, Perl, Python or any of the zillion other programming languages which have open-source implementations."
.Net Managed C++ or C++Builder. Don't know is there a .Net perl and python yet.
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If you consider Rotor is open source the Java has the same level open source-ness and this whole post is dust. You can download Sun Java source code, not a crippled implementation.
Yes but he has a point. Mono isn't a treat to anything for the next few years at least.
"If Sun continue to advertise only WebSphere and WebLogic"
I would say they should fire the marketing department if they are promoting for the competence, IBM and BEA.
Last I read is that Sun doesn't have a problem with open source implementations of Java, is just that Sun isn't doing one.
In my times we had no stinking computers, no sir. We used paper and pencil to "execute" the programs. We never needed to reboot!
"Squeak began, very simply, with the needs of a research group at Apple."
I don't think Squeak is an official Apple project. It just was born there.
There are some interesting points, but others are nonsense. "needs to position its own (Open Source) NetBeans and rival IBM's Eclipse as mere IDEs that support the Ant way of building applications.". Is publicy know by anyone interested that almost every major IDE supports Ant.
" Sun can lend credibility to Mozilla and XUL.". As much as I like Mozilla (I'm using it right now) I don't know if anyone could do that.
This is just an order of magnitud above ESR lowly comment but it still missing the target.
Java does run on an virtual machine, but modern VM compile code dinamically, not interpreting nor emulating.
How does MOno run?
The question is: how we update BSD with 2.6?
What about bugs? redhat up2date lets a normal user upgrade easily enough the kernel without reinstalling the whole thing.
China men just want to kidnap your blonde playmates??
I knew someone who was documenting this but I lost contact and can't find him :-)
I know in Cuba they keep people deprived of their rights. They call the place Guantanamo...
I hate racists. We should put all racists in a train and gas them all.
Computers are deterministic
Oh god, a computer calvinist!
Let me tell you about the group of girls I hear telling the profesor how they were debugging the timing loop to measure an analogic signal, stepping through the loop code in the debugger. Free will kills determinism!
I like your methodology and I would apply it in the case I do any debugging. I don't need it right now, because I didn't found any bugs to fix. It may be related to not doing any testing. Testing is dangerous, something may break. The only maxim I need is "if it compiles, it works". Modern compilers check your program, if I would make some silly error it just catches at sight. And static type checking guarantees the program works right allways. I never look the code again once it compiles. Isn't programming wonderful?
I have to leave now, I have to deliver more quality software.
Of course, this is still up to debate
I think is not debatable. Of course I could be wrong. What others think about this is not just the opinions of individuals, so I should not care what you think. But your opinion is important. Really.
At least with Firebird the database is in one file, I don't even want to know what My(your?)Sql does with databases files...
I said I don't want to know!
Foxbird?
"It used to be a collection of scripts on top of RCS, but it's had it's own back end for a while now."
Which just happens to implement the same RCS and diff functionality.
For me is better that way, I prefer sharing behaviour by reusing libraries than by executing programs.
How do they compare on documentation? I have seen that subversion comes with a free whole book.
Real programmer don't need any bloated version control. Real programmers just need one source file.
Pakistan, the friendly nuclear provider. I just don't know if is right wind, but does it matter?
But Smalltalk was never called a scripting language.
And scripting is programming, though not every program is script. Or is it? I need some very good definitions here.
Arghh! If only we used our programming talents for GW-BASIC nothing of this would had happened!