What the hell is Objective C++?
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The O'Reilly BSD BOF pages states that Darwin supports both Objective C and Objective C++. Isn't that like saying you play both kinds of music, Country and Western?
A search on Google and Darwin's search page turned up nothing useful. But then I came across this Objective C FAQ.
It says that Objective C++ is a co-mingling of Objective C and C++ syntax that is accepted by Apple's compiler.
I always thought that Darwin used gcc with the objective-c syntax engine. Maybe the Apple complier is something new. Does anyone know the history of this?
The result will be consumer devices that are more powerful than IBM's Deep Blue super-computer, operate at low power and access the broadband internet at ultra-high speeds," the statement added.
Does that mean I can invite Vladimir Kramnik (the current reigning chess champion) over to my house and have him lose against my Playstation?
I've heard plenty of positive comments about JBuilder and its made me want to at least try it. Yeah, I don't much care if the tool or IDE is Open Source as long as it works good. But Inprise/Borland (whatever they are calling themselves,) kinda ticked me off regarding the whole Visigenics CORBA thing. Don't get me started on that. That is one project that could have used some form of OS license. Esp. the part about using it for any purpose whatsoever.
I was aware of the Integra stuff, and probably would have persued that path when we made the move to Solaris and Linux. But by then all the main COM objects (which just called SQL Server sprocs,) had been rewritten to use this German JDBC driver pkg that worked great with SQL Server w/o needing the ODBC bridge.
Listeners to the audio webcast will have the chance to vote to resurrect the show. I still enjoy watching the Tom Baker repeats on BBC-America. Yeah the special effects are cheezy and it always reminds me of a English take on Godzilla. The shows were lots of fun, with dry humor, drama, action and not lets forget some scantily clad women!
As a development manager, I've had the joy of porting VB developers to Java, primarily because we wanted to standardize on a cross platform language and they wanted to learn a more modern O-O system.
They are usually a bit spoiled by the ease of GUI development and writing to an event model. A good Java IDE will help with that. A year ago, we used Visual J++ which let us interoperate with our COM objects. I basically told them, "Look, its the same code as you have been writing, just add a semicolon at the end of each line." Which was true for COM calls anyway. The other syntax differences were sugar-coating and we had a number of reference cards. This gets them started.
Recently, we've moved over to a combo WinNT and Linux development platform. To keep everything consistant, we chose Forte 2 which is Open Source. I think it is an excellent IDE with most of the features you need. Check it out at Sun's Forte for Java site.
Re:With slight modification...
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Hey....Commandment 10 is actually the Golden Rule!
Shouldn't the last one be:
10. Do not covet the porches of thy rich neighbor who works for Microsoft, do not covet his swimsuit model wife, or his butler or his daughter's pony or anything of your rich neighbor's just be cause you are lowly paid Open Source programmer.
Open gene plants vs. shared gene ones.
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Did anyone else notice how silent their Chief Software Architect is on this matter? Linus and RMS spin forth, but Mr. Bill remains elusive. Guess he's too busy gushing over the XBox.
This might help my bosses finally "get it."
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With all the recent media attention to this Open/closed (come on, if it quacks like a duck, then it must be...) source debate, I've found myself in the position of having to explain it to the higher-ups. "If they give it away, how do they make any money?" I'm pretty tired of ducking that one.
But at least, GNU/Linux and it's buddies are finally appearing on more people's radar. A few of them actually want to try it now. 6 months ago it was "PowerPoint rulez." Now they're all: "Microsoft sux".
Shared Source gr8est thing since sliced bread ;)
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The Boys from Redmond have put up an entire section of their web site devoted to this revolutionary "philosophy."
What I'd like to know is, if they claim that they have shared the source for Windows with over 100 universities, and if that translates to hundreds or thousands of eyeballs, have not some loyal./ students or faculty had access to this? Can they not shed light on things like the Kerberos mod, the _NSAKEY and other topics hotly debated each night here?
Come on folks, give it up already...Or must you remain silent in the face of Draconian NDAs? Will anyone even admit to this?
But, boy oh boy, this would be like getting a tour of Area 51!
GPL'ed -- Does that mean it is really GNU/AtheOS?
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I just finished Linus's new book, "Just for Fun." It got me to tinkering with the idea of writing my own OS kernel, bootstrapping it from Linux and gcc, gmake and bash. Much like Linux was built from Minix and various GNU tools.
I had planned on giving it a working title of Eddix, but when it got to be popular in about 8 years, RMS would force me to call it GNU/Eddix. I didn't think I would win that battle, so I scuttled the idea.
Re:Can IBM live up to it's marketting?
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I think the idea of a marketing survey is a good one. It illuminates the areas that need focus. Ximian is running a survey in which you can win a free DVD player. It is pretty general (Linux vs. Windows, primary distro, application spread etc,) but I think it is a good first start. Perhaps,/. could run a better one in place of its silly polls. Go there!
As my birthday is actually April 1, I'm absolutely sick of this trend. Nearly every news outlet feels compelled to post practical jokes on the day I'm supposed to be having fun! And its not at all what April Fools day is all about.
This is NO JOKING MATTER people.
Originally April 1 was the beginning of the new year. (Makes sense, as spring is time of renewal, etc.)
In 1564, Charles IX of France, decreed that New Years day be moved to January 1 to align with the (upcoming) Gregorian calender. Those who refused to change or forgot were sent foolish gifts or invited to non-existant parties. Butts of these pranks were called "poisson d'avril."
Over the next 200 years the practice spread from France to England and then the United States.
I, for one, having been the "target" of too much of such toomfoolery (through no fault other than my mother's poor choice of a conception date,) demand the reinstatement of April 1 as New Years day. Further, I demand the abolishment of so-called "jokes" on this day and reciprocal punishment for pranksters who attempt them. Maybe they can spend some time in the dungeon. I am not without sympathy for those who want some outlet for their creative humourous juices. I propose February 29th for the new Fool's day. Those born on that day would only have to put up with all the ridicule every 4 years. Anyway, they are foolish for trying to convince us they are only 1/4 of thier actual age!
Modern microkernel development has come along a fair bit since suffering such bad press in the 90's. L4, the successor to L3, now refers to a family of kernels based on the L4 API. Jochen Liedtke's implementation for 486s had a very restrictive license. Others have addressed this by offering GPL'd implementations. This list of L4s is a good starting point for thos interested in the topic.
I had a look at the specs and comparing it to what I know about the current Cygwin, I'd say its a more complete Unix-like environment. I've had trouble compiling some simple stuff on Cygwin due to missing assumptions about the file system, etc. I usually got around those by creative mounting, file copying, etc.
But isn't Cygnus owned by RH? And aren't they a major contributer to the Gnome foundation? It'd make some sense to help Gnome+Cygwin succeed. But maybe the folks at RH+Cygnus aren't keen to help Windows users too much.
The timeline mentions a Multics system named "LINUS" which stood for Logical Inquiry and Update System. Around 1984.
Hmmm,When was LT born again?
Will 2029 see "Professor reports last Linux server finally turned off?"
Slashdot Mirror
A search on Google and Darwin's search page turned up nothing useful. But then I came across this Objective C FAQ.
It says that Objective C++ is a co-mingling of Objective C and C++ syntax that is accepted by Apple's compiler.
I always thought that Darwin used gcc with the objective-c syntax engine. Maybe the Apple complier is something new. Does anyone know the history of this?Does that mean I can invite Vladimir Kramnik (the current reigning chess champion) over to my house and have him lose against my Playstation?
I was aware of the Integra stuff, and probably would have persued that path when we made the move to Solaris and Linux. But by then all the main COM objects (which just called SQL Server sprocs,) had been rewritten to use this German JDBC driver pkg that worked great with SQL Server w/o needing the ODBC bridge.
Listeners to the audio webcast will have the chance to vote to resurrect the show. I still enjoy watching the Tom Baker repeats on BBC-America. Yeah the special effects are cheezy and it always reminds me of a English take on Godzilla. The shows were lots of fun, with dry humor, drama, action and not lets forget some scantily clad women!
They are usually a bit spoiled by the ease of GUI development and writing to an event model. A good Java IDE will help with that. A year ago, we used Visual J++ which let us interoperate with our COM objects. I basically told them, "Look, its the same code as you have been writing, just add a semicolon at the end of each line." Which was true for COM calls anyway. The other syntax differences were sugar-coating and we had a number of reference cards. This gets them started.
Recently, we've moved over to a combo WinNT and Linux development platform. To keep everything consistant, we chose Forte 2 which is Open Source. I think it is an excellent IDE with most of the features you need. Check it out at Sun's Forte for Java site.
Get it instead of the one linked to in the post. The tar file there is missing. Here it is: http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/RBOW/Date-DayOfWeek -1.13.tar.gz
Hey....Commandment 10 is actually the Golden Rule!
Shouldn't the last one be:
10. Do not covet the porches of thy rich neighbor who works for Microsoft, do not covet his swimsuit model wife, or his butler or his daughter's pony or anything of your rich neighbor's just be cause you are lowly paid Open Source programmer.
Mr. Bates is spreading more disinformation.
Yuk-yuk.
Did anyone else notice how silent their Chief Software Architect is on this matter? Linus and RMS spin forth, but Mr. Bill remains elusive. Guess he's too busy gushing over the XBox.
With all the recent media attention to this Open/closed (come on, if it quacks like a duck, then it must be...) source debate, I've found myself in the position of having to explain it to the higher-ups. "If they give it away, how do they make any money?" I'm pretty tired of ducking that one.
But at least, GNU/Linux and it's buddies are finally appearing on more people's radar. A few of them actually want to try it now. 6 months ago it was "PowerPoint rulez." Now they're all: "Microsoft sux".
The Boys from Redmond have put up an entire section of their web site devoted to this revolutionary "philosophy." ./ students or faculty had access to this? Can they not shed light on things like the Kerberos mod, the _NSAKEY and other topics hotly debated each night here?
What I'd like to know is, if they claim that they have shared the source for Windows with over 100 universities, and if that translates to hundreds or thousands of eyeballs, have not some loyal
Come on folks, give it up already...Or must you remain silent in the face of Draconian NDAs? Will anyone even admit to this?
But, boy oh boy, this would be like getting a tour of Area 51!
I just finished Linus's new book, "Just for Fun." It got me to tinkering with the idea of writing my own OS kernel, bootstrapping it from Linux and gcc, gmake and bash. Much like Linux was built from Minix and various GNU tools.
I had planned on giving it a working title of Eddix, but when it got to be popular in about 8 years, RMS would force me to call it GNU/Eddix. I didn't think I would win that battle, so I scuttled the idea.
The initial services include myProfile, myAddress, myContacts, myInbox, myWallet, myDocuments, myCalendar, and others.
Hey Microsoft, it's My Wallet. Keep your grubby little hands off it!
The clip is just a few minutes long.
You must pay me ONE MILLION DOLLARS!
Scott E.
... You complete me!
I think the idea of a marketing survey is a good one. It illuminates the areas that need focus. Ximian is running a survey in which you can win a free DVD player. It is pretty general (Linux vs. Windows, primary distro, application spread etc,) but I think it is a good first start. Perhaps, /. could run a better one in place of its silly polls. Go there!
As my birthday is actually April 1, I'm absolutely sick of this trend. Nearly every news outlet feels compelled to post practical jokes on the day I'm supposed to be having fun! And its not at all what April Fools day is all about.
This is NO JOKING MATTER people.
Originally April 1 was the beginning of the new year. (Makes sense, as spring is time of renewal, etc.)
In 1564, Charles IX of France, decreed that New Years day be moved to January 1 to align with the (upcoming) Gregorian calender. Those who refused to change or forgot were sent foolish gifts or invited to non-existant parties. Butts of these pranks were called "poisson d'avril." Over the next 200 years the practice spread from France to England and then the United States.
I, for one, having been the "target" of too much of such toomfoolery (through no fault other than my mother's poor choice of a conception date,) demand the reinstatement of April 1 as New Years day. Further, I demand the abolishment of so-called "jokes" on this day and reciprocal punishment for pranksters who attempt them. Maybe they can spend some time in the dungeon.
I am not without sympathy for those who want some outlet for their creative humourous juices. I propose February 29th for the new Fool's day. Those born on that day would only have to put up with all the ridicule every 4 years. Anyway, they are foolish for trying to convince us they are only 1/4 of thier actual age!
Modern microkernel development has come along a fair bit since suffering such bad press in the 90's. L4, the successor to L3, now refers to a family of kernels based on the L4 API. Jochen Liedtke's implementation for 486s had a very restrictive license. Others have addressed this by offering GPL'd implementations. This list of L4s is a good starting point for thos interested in the topic.
I had a look at the specs and comparing it to what I know about the current Cygwin, I'd say its a more complete Unix-like environment. I've had trouble compiling some simple stuff on Cygwin due to missing assumptions about the file system, etc. I usually got around those by creative mounting, file copying, etc. But isn't Cygnus owned by RH? And aren't they a major contributer to the Gnome foundation? It'd make some sense to help Gnome+Cygwin succeed. But maybe the folks at RH+Cygnus aren't keen to help Windows users too much.
Wasn't that V'ger? I mean Voyager?
The timeline mentions a Multics system named "LINUS" which stood for Logical Inquiry and Update System. Around 1984. Hmmm,When was LT born again? Will 2029 see "Professor reports last Linux server finally turned off?"
That didn't happen in the Linux downloader. Wonder if they are targeting ads only at the windoze community?
"The only difference between Surak of Vulcan and RMS, is: Surak of Vulcan doesn't think he is RMS."
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