Boost.Python
I sort of hope that Parrot will help Perl overcome its introversion, and let it integrate more readily with other languages.
I think that C++ and Python form a dynamic duo. You can put the effort into compiling items that benefit from such, and glue them together in Python most agreeably.
The C++ standard library focused on Platonic abstractions, but Boost is pulling C++ in more mainstream directions. And that's a beautiful thing.
While issuing random plugs, check out Leo. It's not too often you see a fresh interface on an editor.
Yeah. While the PHB archetype certainly holds sway, there are plenty of people who minored in Comp. Sci. or something, such that their cluelessness is merely a facade.
The most negative thing you should say of another, on or off the job, is nothing.
And, hey, tell somebody something nice, or that you appreciated their work, or they have a cool tie. Granted, it's not as fun as watching the gcc output scroll by in the terminal window while you compile that tasty tarball, but it is kinda fun.
Well, I think the idea of a C++ desktop is just swell, but the whole meta-object compiler thing is a turn-off, as is the non-standard string class, and such.
IANAT. Qt has to be understood in the context that it was way ahead of its time with the signals/slots business, far ahead of C++ standardization. Props to Trolltech.
Nevertheless, the better long-term bet seems to lie with boost, wherein is much goodness, at least on the backend. There was some fascinating discussion of a boost interface library a while ago, which served to point out the diversity of the requirements, but it doesn't seemed to have condensed as far as vaporware yet. So Qt's "yeah, but we happen to exist" argument trumps any theoretical whining I can offer.;)
One wonders if any Trolltechies read/., and if they can comment on the likelihood of Qt getting more in synch with mainstream C++.
Disclaimer: my knowledge of Qt comes from reading a circa-KDE 3.0 tome.
From such technically irrelevant fluff emerge huge sales.
Apparently, Danielle Steele has taken some networking and comp-sci courses at her community college.
I mean, you're talking a 39,970 (wait, with a UK URL you want 39.970, don't you?) line difference in your estimate of the codebase here. Recommend calibration.
Ah, you meant between 30 and 40,000 lines.
Just tweaking your beard, boss.;)
I just hate the way important things keep getting buried. How much interface effort does it take to change a few environment variables? That's enough inteface devolution for Mothersbaugh to write an album.
The text-based configuration file, with easy versioning and commenting, is king.
For whom? The $ dependency reaches from the US Government into the taxpayer wallet.
IOW, maybe we should all buy the rest of the product, as we're already subsidizing it anyway.
I guess I could warm to the nannyism, if it actually prevented lawbreaking.
I have no way of knowing, but I Guess the Illegitimate Might Procure something else for their dark deeds.
If only they confined themselves to 'victimless' crimes like circulating mediocre films, and producing write-only research papers at universities.
Look at what the elected ones are up to!
MS is floundering, and Intel's fate is too tied to them now
Well, given the cash reserves and market share of MS, 'floundering' seems a malapropism.
OTOH, since Intel's compiler now does the Linux kernel, clearly they perceive some market growth in the penguin direction.
In other news, SCO swears up and down that it lost the winning lottery ticket...
Until hacked.
Trusted Computing will be the shiz-nit until Marketing produces the Next Big Thing, when Trusted Computing joins <your pet buzzword here> in the bit bucket with Bob
The dimensions of the "Who cares..." question include, but are not limited to:
license
language
audience
scope
For a fact, if all of the Open Source intellect converged on a One True (Relatively Small Set Of) Answer(s) to the above bullets, it would arguable be a Good Thing, but figure the odds.
Let's not underestimate Larry Wall.
Given the time, care, and Deep Thinking going into Perl6, the possibility exists that P6 will leapfrog other scripting languages in terms of speed and power. Its TMTOWTDIness and DWIMiness may put it in the C++ neighborhood when it comes to learning curve, but when you read what he's got in mind for regular expressions and operators, and the hints about objects, P6 should be worth the w(ai|eigh)t.
As if this were insufficiently cool, Parrot (who said bad jokes never come true?) offers some incredible potential for language interoperability, and is rockin' good in its own right.
C++'s templates are basically textual substitution, you can't type-constrain template arguments, you just have to see if it works;
Hmmm...no, your remark refers to the pre-processor. Here
is some reading to catch you up on what's going on.
Also, Boost, the CPAN of CPP, will go a long way to improving understanding.
Mods, BK isn't insightful, mod appropriately.
I was afraid that it was going to be "Michael Jackson: Garage Days (Finally) Visited", but you knew when JB mentioned Motorhead that no, this movie has rock cred.
But please, no sequels.
And what's with the 500 errors? httpd.conf got SARS?
Comment about Open Source browser as a better general patch for the woes of IE.
For a dual-boot configuration, I'm still in favor of a FAT32 partition between NTFS and <favorite open source file system>, the beauty of which is that Mozilla mail can be pointed to a single set of folders on that FAT32, regardless of which OS is booted.
Now, if only the Palm desktop stuff could achieve such flexibility; I still wind up duplicating data in the Palm desktop under redmondware, and JPilot under Linux.
Which isn't too much to have to complain about, now, is it?
RUNT
will get you to a command prompt off of your USB keyfob, assuming USB drive with boot-from-floppy allowed.
You'd probably want to get your Beyond Linux From Scratch on to give you something beyond that, e.g., a desktop.
Linux, like all good IT projects, is blessed/cursed with flexibility...
And flexibility, like any good PHB can tell you, is the key to indecision.
1) PowerPoint makes you dumb
2) David Byrne has been getting his PowerPoint on, to produce art.
3) Therefore, art makes you dumb?
Hmmm... do we also believe guns kill people, not the people pulling the triggers?
There is the pragmatic view that the internet works because the free BSD TCP/IP stack was there.
This nips at the arguments of the closed-source and GPL crowds, though.
Slashdot Mirror
Boost.Python
I sort of hope that Parrot will help Perl overcome its introversion, and let it integrate more readily with other languages.
I think that C++ and Python form a dynamic duo. You can put the effort into compiling items that benefit from such, and glue them together in Python most agreeably.
The C++ standard library focused on Platonic abstractions, but Boost is pulling C++ in more mainstream directions. And that's a beautiful thing.
While issuing random plugs, check out Leo. It's not too often you see a fresh interface on an editor.
Yeah. While the PHB archetype certainly holds sway, there are plenty of people who minored in Comp. Sci. or something, such that their cluelessness is merely a facade.
The most negative thing you should say of another, on or off the job, is nothing.
And, hey, tell somebody something nice, or that you appreciated their work, or they have a cool tie.
Granted, it's not as fun as watching the gcc output scroll by in the terminal window while you compile that tasty tarball, but it is kinda fun.
Well, I think the idea of a C++ desktop is just swell, but the whole meta-object compiler thing is a turn-off, as is the non-standard string class, and such. ;) /., and if they can comment on the likelihood of Qt getting more in synch with mainstream C++.
IANAT. Qt has to be understood in the context that it was way ahead of its time with the signals/slots business, far ahead of C++ standardization. Props to Trolltech.
Nevertheless, the better long-term bet seems to lie with boost, wherein is much goodness, at least on the backend. There was some fascinating discussion of a boost interface library a while ago, which served to point out the diversity of the requirements, but it doesn't seemed to have condensed as far as vaporware yet. So Qt's "yeah, but we happen to exist" argument trumps any theoretical whining I can offer.
One wonders if any Trolltechies read
Disclaimer: my knowledge of Qt comes from reading a circa-KDE 3.0 tome.
Oh, so this is more legal-system-as-advertising-vehicle and not simply life immitating Onion?
Truly a fresh slant on 'paying the bills'.
From such technically irrelevant fluff emerge huge sales.
Apparently, Danielle Steele has taken some networking and comp-sci courses at her community college.
I mean, you're talking a 39,970 (wait, with a UK URL you want 39.970, don't you?) line difference in your estimate of the codebase here. Recommend calibration.
Ah, you meant between 30 and 40,000 lines.
Just tweaking your beard, boss.
You point out that this is not a one-dimensional question, and there are several distinct audiences.
Would that more understood this.
I just hate the way important things keep getting buried. How much interface effort does it take to change a few environment variables? That's enough inteface devolution for Mothersbaugh to write an album.
The text-based configuration file, with easy versioning and commenting, is king.
For whom? The $ dependency reaches from the US Government into the taxpayer wallet.
IOW, maybe we should all buy the rest of the product, as we're already subsidizing it anyway.
I guess I could warm to the nannyism, if it actually prevented lawbreaking.
I have no way of knowing, but I Guess the Illegitimate Might Procure something else for their dark deeds.
If only they confined themselves to 'victimless' crimes like circulating mediocre films, and producing write-only research papers at universities.
Look at what the elected ones are up to!
Dunno. Pent- alludes to 5.
Insert some joke about Sexium (at last?) here.
MS is floundering, and Intel's fate is too tied to them now
Well, given the cash reserves and market share of MS, 'floundering' seems a malapropism.
OTOH, since Intel's compiler now does the Linux kernel, clearly they perceive some market growth in the penguin direction.
In other news, SCO swears up and down that it lost the winning lottery ticket...
Amnesiux?
Until hacked.
Trusted Computing will be the shiz-nit until Marketing produces the Next Big Thing, when Trusted Computing joins <your pet buzzword here> in the bit bucket with Bob
license
language
audience
scope
For a fact, if all of the Open Source intellect converged on a One True (Relatively Small Set Of) Answer(s) to the above bullets, it would arguable be a Good Thing, but figure the odds.
DJGPP
has got to loom large in the discussion.
If only the text editor in that operating system had friendlier keyboard shortcuts...
Let's not underestimate Larry Wall.
Given the time, care, and Deep Thinking going into Perl6, the possibility exists that P6 will leapfrog other scripting languages in terms of speed and power.
Its TMTOWTDIness and DWIMiness may put it in the C++ neighborhood when it comes to learning curve, but when you read what he's got in mind for regular expressions and operators, and the hints about objects, P6 should be worth the w(ai|eigh)t.
As if this were insufficiently cool, Parrot (who said bad jokes never come true?) offers some incredible potential for language interoperability, and is rockin' good in its own right.
Hmmm...no, your remark refers to the pre-processor.
Here is some reading to catch you up on what's going on.
Also, Boost, the CPAN of CPP, will go a long way to improving understanding.
Mods, BK isn't insightful, mod appropriately.
I was afraid that it was going to be "Michael Jackson: Garage Days (Finally) Visited", but you knew when JB mentioned Motorhead that no, this movie has rock cred.
But please, no sequels.
And what's with the 500 errors?
httpd.conf got SARS?
Comment about Open Source browser as a better general patch for the woes of IE.
For a dual-boot configuration, I'm still in favor of a FAT32 partition between NTFS and <favorite open source file system>, the beauty of which is that Mozilla mail can be pointed to a single set of folders on that FAT32, regardless of which OS is booted.
Now, if only the Palm desktop stuff could achieve such flexibility; I still wind up duplicating data in the Palm desktop under redmondware, and JPilot under Linux.
Which isn't too much to have to complain about, now, is it?
It will thrive until the Next Big Thing(tm) arrives, to "save us from the sad shortcomings of XML".
XML's only real fault is that's it's been oversold, not unlike Object Oriented Programming and Java before it.
RUNT will get you to a command prompt off of your USB keyfob, assuming USB drive with boot-from-floppy allowed.
You'd probably want to get your Beyond Linux From Scratch on to give you something beyond that, e.g., a desktop.
Linux, like all good IT projects, is blessed/cursed with flexibility...
And flexibility, like any good PHB can tell you, is the key to indecision.
1) PowerPoint makes you dumb
2) David Byrne has been getting his PowerPoint on, to produce art.
3) Therefore, art makes you dumb?
Hmmm... do we also believe guns kill people, not the people pulling the triggers?
There is the pragmatic view that the internet works because the free BSD TCP/IP stack was there.
This nips at the arguments of the closed-source and GPL crowds, though.