Also "legacy training". Student learns from prof. Student becomes prof. Cycle repeats.
Also Fortran didn't stagnate in the 60s, it's been evolving over time.
Other languages are highly optimizable too. However most of the new and "cool" languages I've seen in the last ten years are all basic scripting languages, great for the web or It work but awful for doing lots of work in a short period of time. It's no mystery why Fortran, C/C++, and Ada are still surviving in areas where no just-in-time wannabe will flourish.
Do not drag genuine JIT/intermediate bytecode compiling languages through the mud by grouping them with scripting languages. AFAIK there is no cool language that is ever compiled, JIT or not.
Isn't the main performance benefit that Fortran has always claimed over C/C++ the fact that an array is guaranteed to only be used from one thread at a time, and thus you don't have to re-read from memory to registers each time you want to do something with the data in the array? A capability that was formally added to C in C99 (and pretty much universally informally added to C++) with the restrict keyword?
Correct me if I'm wrong here, as I'm not a Fortran programmer.
Correction, the whole debate about speed is mostly a thinly veiled excuse to continue using an antiquated programming language for no other pragmatic reason. Half the problem is probably the desire to use legacy libraries, but the other half is simply difficulty in learning something new.
To be perfectly fair, there is no rational way to read what I said, and come up with what you claim I said. It is almost as if you were a troll or something.
It's almost as if GNOME and Unity and all of that are like a precursor to Obamacare or something.
If you like your Gnome 2 you can keep you Gnome 2?
Yeah, but it will need to be made Accessible Computer Act compliant. This includes removing the taskbar, and generally making applications 10x harder to find than they were before. ACA compliant GNOME 2 will take four hours to install, when it used to only take 20 minutes.
My health health insurance plan just got canceled for not being ACA approved, it did not have pediatric dental coverage. The ACA approved replacement (think same coverage limits/deductible/copay) costs around $600, when I was paying around $250 before. Good thing that the children I do not have will be covered at the dentist!
I used Ubuntu on the desktop extensively in the past, but switched to Windows 7 for work convenience. Recently, I tried to go back... around version 12.10. Unity is total garbage, installing Gnome didn't help at all. KDE has an more classic looking environment, but it is otherwise generally a turd. They say us users are just stupid for not blindly embracing the new thing. Today, I still use Ubuntu extensively through the only useful interface it provides... BASH.
At this point I want to donate money to someone else, then send The Gnome Foundation a letter explaining how much, and why.
It is not that one sentence so much, as the entire article groping for words that are... almost correct. There is something very peculiar about the entire news site, and their credibility is rather suspect.
The stories are almost like markov chain nonsense that is inspired by real news articles. Maybe nonsense article remixing is some kind of new SEO/ad revenue trick.
XFCE and LXDE... figure out where they belong in: depreciated, alpha, or poorly supported. Gnome is in version 4, dickhead. Naming a bunch of legacy stuff does not really respond to the point that several big players in the Linux world are going with the Windows 8 forced UI paradigm switch mentality.
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Oh and by the way, your comment is the textbook definition of intellectually lazy.
Kind of like basing your entire argument on an ad hominem fallacy? You are a brilliant satire of something, almost amusing to read.
Also "legacy training". Student learns from prof. Student becomes prof. Cycle repeats.
Also Fortran didn't stagnate in the 60s, it's been evolving over time.
Other languages are highly optimizable too. However most of the new and "cool" languages I've seen in the last ten years are all basic scripting languages, great for the web or It work but awful for doing lots of work in a short period of time. It's no mystery why Fortran, C/C++, and Ada are still surviving in areas where no just-in-time wannabe will flourish.
Do not drag genuine JIT/intermediate bytecode compiling languages through the mud by grouping them with scripting languages. AFAIK there is no cool language that is ever compiled, JIT or not.
Isn't the main performance benefit that Fortran has always claimed over C/C++ the fact that an array is guaranteed to only be used from one thread at a time, and thus you don't have to re-read from memory to registers each time you want to do something with the data in the array? A capability that was formally added to C in C99 (and pretty much universally informally added to C++) with the restrict keyword?
Correct me if I'm wrong here, as I'm not a Fortran programmer.
Correction, the whole debate about speed is mostly a thinly veiled excuse to continue using an antiquated programming language for no other pragmatic reason. Half the problem is probably the desire to use legacy libraries, but the other half is simply difficulty in learning something new.
That's just for the keycaps. You have to buy the rest of the keyboard separately (for something like $100).
I run a Unicomp Ultra Classic keyboard. It cost $80, and is worth at least twice as much. Try one out someday.
Expect the prices of streaming video to always go up, for a multitude of lame reasons.
To be perfectly fair, there is no rational way to read what I said, and come up with what you claim I said. It is almost as if you were a troll or something.
Death row, appeals, and execution, are far more expensive for the taxpayer than lifetime imprisonment.
It is easy to be cavalier until you consider yourself, or someone you care about, being innocent.
Yes, it actually costs $10/ton at the landfill here for commercial entities... plus trucking.
It's almost as if GNOME and Unity and all of that are like a precursor to Obamacare or something.
If you like your Gnome 2 you can keep you Gnome 2?
Yeah, but it will need to be made Accessible Computer Act compliant. This includes removing the taskbar, and generally making applications 10x harder to find than they were before. ACA compliant GNOME 2 will take four hours to install, when it used to only take 20 minutes.
My health health insurance plan just got canceled for not being ACA approved, it did not have pediatric dental coverage. The ACA approved replacement (think same coverage limits/deductible/copay) costs around $600, when I was paying around $250 before. Good thing that the children I do not have will be covered at the dentist!
I used Ubuntu on the desktop extensively in the past, but switched to Windows 7 for work convenience. Recently, I tried to go back... around version 12.10. Unity is total garbage, installing Gnome didn't help at all. KDE has an more classic looking environment, but it is otherwise generally a turd. They say us users are just stupid for not blindly embracing the new thing. Today, I still use Ubuntu extensively through the only useful interface it provides... BASH.
At this point I want to donate money to someone else, then send The Gnome Foundation a letter explaining how much, and why.
Nobody wans Windows 8, but at least Microsoft is deeply committed to supporting the previous version well into the future.
You are defending computer generated plagiarism, and terrible Slashdot editorial quality, by trifling over punctuation?
If a business tried to handle the information that the IRS handles with Windows XP, someone would end up in jail.
It is not that one sentence so much, as the entire article groping for words that are... almost correct. There is something very peculiar about the entire news site, and their credibility is rather suspect.
The stories are almost like markov chain nonsense that is inspired by real news articles. Maybe nonsense article remixing is some kind of new SEO/ad revenue trick.
The broken switches can move out of the “run” situation suddenly, executing the motor and closing off force to airbags.
What is this even supposed to mean?!? The "run" situation?
What a bullshit news story, it is written is broken and bastardized English. Lets discuss a reputable story instead.
XFCE and LXDE... figure out where they belong in: depreciated, alpha, or poorly supported. Gnome is in version 4, dickhead. Naming a bunch of legacy stuff does not really respond to the point that several big players in the Linux world are going with the Windows 8 forced UI paradigm switch mentality.
This is the exact type of, romanticized version of the past bullshit, that we are saying is bullshit here.
Flamebait? Smallpox is eradicated in the wild.
It is funny how only the super wealthy countries pine for a simple life.
I am running KDE 4.11.5, I have a taskbar, and you are making shit up.
Thank you for making me check out KDE again, I could actually use it I think. It would be nice to switch back to Linux again for work.
I would take Window Maker over Unity any day, even if I had to launch applications with xterm.
What is with the AC dickhead?