C++ is the triumph of terseness over readability. If you want to play with Object Orientation use Smalltalk. Then choose a suitable language for production.
The use of file name extensions to indicate file types is a feature of some Digital Operating Systems like VMS that has been aped by CP/M and MS-DOS. The MacIntosh System uses a separate file type indicator and Unix uses magic (4) bits even though they sometimes use suffixes for C source files.
Software helps to make programmers more productive; computers can translate (compile) code, but not create software.
The real challenge: if robots put lots of people out of work, the economy will go into a depression and put a certain number of programmers out of work.
Future historians will find an appropriate tag for the third millennium. If the industrial revolution is over, we still live in the industrial age, though it may appear to be declining. Some historians opine that we are going through a not-much-war era.
The big question: is / was there a Software Revolution and what is it supposed to be? In the sixties the term 'Software Crisis' was coined, but has gone of ouf use. Software no longer seems to be in such short supply, but the quality of it is still problematic at best. Software is part of a process called Automation, which has been popular since Henry Ford introduced the assembly line. Advances in electronics have helped automation to progress and increase steadily during the twentieth century.
One proof the world is sliding backwards: fifty years ago the end of civilisation was due to only three things: sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll. Few people thought there would be any civilisation left after the year 2000.
The evidence implies that the slugs violate Darwin's laws of Evolution in order to get some advantage in their struggle for survival, but they equally violate the laws that the Creator decreed.
At least the screens are smaller. The problem with the article is in the assumption that the App Store of the Americal Apple company sells only software that was written in the U.S. of A.
Terrorists, white sharks, ebola viruses, and lettuce may contain desoxyribonucleic acid, but they may also contain hydroxylic acid a.k.a. DHMO. The latter is more dangerous, but can be rinsed away with water. We recommend against smoking lettuce.
Pascal gave way to Modula and Oberon and it inspired Ada.
Then you got things like Borland Object Pascal / Delphi, but once you include Object Orientation, it no longer should be called Pascal, just some proprietary language.
You all learned the answer in high school: if you have a wave, then you can reduce its amplitude or extinguish it by adding a copy if the same signal with the opposite phase.
This has been done to reduce acoustical noise, but it's rather harder to accomplish with light waves. But then, holography is all about interference.
There was a time when Apple built better quality boxes than the every Windows PC.... before the fruity company switched to RISC processors and begged Jobs to come back. Today they build pretty, but flimsy PCs without Windows preinstalled.
The point of having an Open Source publication would be that anybody will be allowed to change any article. We already have that, and it's called Wikipedia.
Who cares about the Operating System, as long as it's cheap, reliable, and trivial for the consumer. It's more about the network and the high-level protocols that will define how devices cooperate or if we have to wait for a vendor to monopolise the market.
Apple's kit may look pretty and cost a pretty penny, but their quality is lacking and lagging. As to software: AFAIK they once had a daughter company called Claris that made some software. Now they just distribute a variant of BSD Unix.
The German state of Bavaria has claimed the copyright over Adolf Hitler's book 'mein Kampf' and used it to prevent it from being printed. This copyright has expired now so the book becomes free.
Frankly, I hardly know who Knuth, Lamport, Liskov, Hoare, Tarjan, Dijkstra or Maxwell are or were. CS grads should know their theories. Donald Knuth belongs to a small club who study the lives of the inventors along with their inventions.
Steve Reich invented minimal music. Steve Jobs just invented the second record company called Apple (the first one being invented by The Beatles - not anywhere as historical as Sun records). Alan Turing invented the Turing Machine - after Conrad Zuse had built a working computer. Al Bell is credited with the telephone. Innovation was patented by the biblical author of Ecclesiastes.
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America is falling behind compared to malware production overseas:-)
Incidentally, our country had a very similar program about twenty years ago.
C++ is the triumph of terseness over readability. If you want to play with Object Orientation use Smalltalk. Then choose a suitable language for production.
The use of file name extensions to indicate file types is a feature of some Digital Operating Systems like VMS that has been aped by CP/M and MS-DOS. The MacIntosh System uses a separate file type indicator and Unix uses magic (4) bits even though they sometimes use suffixes for C source files.
Software helps to make programmers more productive; computers can translate (compile) code, but not create software.
The real challenge: if robots put lots of people out of work, the economy will go into a depression and put a certain number of programmers out of work.
Do you want fries with that?
Future historians will find an appropriate tag for the third millennium. If the industrial revolution is over, we still live in the industrial age, though it may appear to be declining. Some historians opine that we are going through a not-much-war era.
The big question: is / was there a Software Revolution and what is it supposed to be? In the sixties the term 'Software Crisis' was coined, but has gone of ouf use. Software no longer seems to be in such short supply, but the quality of it is still problematic at best. Software is part of a process called Automation, which has been popular since Henry Ford introduced the assembly line. Advances in electronics have helped automation to progress and increase steadily during the twentieth century.
The poster has a degree in Electronic Engineering, but his skill list does not including designing, building, and repairing electrical apparatuses.
It turns out that the University of Illinois actually teaches a course in General Engineering. It mostly prepares students for managerial roles.
One proof the world is sliding backwards: fifty years ago the end of civilisation was due to only three things: sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll. Few people thought there would be any civilisation left after the year 2000.
What could happen if they discovered the Voldemortino?
Let's sport the Earth Libation Font!
The evidence implies that the slugs violate Darwin's laws of Evolution in order to get some advantage in their struggle for survival, but they equally violate the laws that the Creator decreed.
At least the screens are smaller.
The problem with the article is in the assumption that the App Store of the Americal Apple company sells only software that was written in the U.S. of A.
Terrorists, white sharks, ebola viruses, and lettuce may contain desoxyribonucleic acid, but they may also contain hydroxylic acid a.k.a. DHMO. The latter is more dangerous, but can be rinsed away with water. We recommend against smoking lettuce.
Pascal gave way to Modula and Oberon and it inspired Ada.
Then you got things like Borland Object Pascal / Delphi, but once you include Object Orientation, it no longer should be called Pascal, just some proprietary language.
You all learned the answer in high school: if you have a wave, then you can reduce its amplitude or extinguish it by adding a copy if the same signal with the opposite phase.
This has been done to reduce acoustical noise, but it's rather harder to accomplish with light waves. But then, holography is all about interference.
It's not so much an Open Source browser that we need, but rather a port of Internet Explorer 6 to Linux / Unix.
Something worse than Visual Basic? I can't think of any.
SNOBOL? MUMPS? PL/1? Ada? Intercal? APL? Progress 4GL? PHP?
GWBasic 1.0? I dig the notion of BASIC being a gateway drug.
There was a time when Apple built better quality boxes than the every Windows PC.... before the fruity company switched to RISC processors and begged Jobs to come back. Today they build pretty, but flimsy PCs without Windows preinstalled.
The point of having an Open Source publication would be that anybody will be allowed to change any article. We already have that, and it's called Wikipedia.
Who cares about the Operating System, as long as it's cheap, reliable, and trivial for the consumer. It's more about the network and the high-level protocols that will define how devices cooperate or if we have to wait for a vendor to monopolise the market.
Apple's kit may look pretty and cost a pretty penny, but their quality is lacking and lagging. As to software: AFAIK they once had a daughter company called Claris that made some software. Now they just distribute a variant of BSD Unix.
The German state of Bavaria has claimed the copyright over Adolf Hitler's book 'mein Kampf' and used it to prevent it from being printed. This copyright has expired now so the book becomes free.
Frankly, I hardly know who Knuth, Lamport, Liskov, Hoare, Tarjan, Dijkstra or Maxwell are or were. CS grads should know their theories. Donald Knuth belongs to a small club who study the lives of the inventors along with their inventions.
Steve Reich invented minimal music. Steve Jobs just invented the second record company called Apple (the first one being invented by The Beatles - not anywhere as historical as Sun records). Alan Turing invented the Turing Machine - after Conrad Zuse had built a working computer. Al Bell is credited with the telephone. Innovation was patented by the biblical author of Ecclesiastes.