We have 4 developers doing inhouse development at the place where I work. The web interface programmer uses Java Servelets, the back end guy is forced to deal with Fortran because of lots of legacy code, I'm working with C and Perl in the middle tier. My boss asked me to write wrapper functions for Java which the web developer could use to access my C + Perl functions. I didn't have the patience or time to deal with JNI, so I decided to have a daemon run on the host and listen on a socket. The Java wrappers would recive a request from the web app, serialize it and send it over the a tcp connection on the same host. The C program listening on the other end will have to deserealize it, make sense of what the Java application wants to do, execute the function and send the results back (via serialization etc). Maybe JNI would have been easier, but my point is there is a lot of glue work I have to do just to get the C, Java and Perl talk to each other.
.NET lets you integrate all this in one go. If, (I know this isn't possible...yet) every compiler we had was a.NET compatible, there would be no ugly glue between apps.
Programming languages are the software developers tools much like a mechanic who has his wrench, pliers etc. Analyze the problem and select the tool which will give you maximum productivity. If I have to do alot of string processing, parsing etc, I'd go with Perl, for low level stuff I have C. AI stuff, prolog and lisp (although I'm not too good with prolog, but the damn goal searching,backtracking built in is excellent). You use the tool which will give you maximum flexibility and efficiency to solve your program. A big project can be broken into smaller boxes..NET can be the glue which lets all the tools talk to each other. After all the FUD about XML, UDDI, IL, CLR, I think the goal of.NET is interoperability between programs. Which IMHO can make my life alot easier and much better.
As much as I like unix, I still wouldn't want Windows to go away. It adds a a different OS to the mix. I'd for one be dissapointed if everything in this world starts running Unix. The file based architecture is very good (unicies), but i'd be scarred if that is the only choice I have.
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this is where you can download the windows demo version version:
You tell me how many bussiness men / VCs roam around on slashdot, eh? What good will exposure on slashdot do?
anyswer = little buzz + nothing.
the people who read slashdot are broke college guys, and middle aged sysadmins holding on to the last thread they have in this hell hole of an economy.
i havn't seen anyone looking at the bright side of this. The script kiddies/worm writters exploit vulnerabilities in the software, plus through social engineering.
microsoft sponsoring dreamhack 2001?
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Suprising and pretty cool:
the dreamhack people have microsoft as their main sponsors.
back to the future part 2.
first scene, the doctor pulls up in his nuclear powered time machine. he needs more power, so he looks through the Marty's garbage dump for fuel.
how long will it be before we can start using a mass to energy converter? is it even remotley possible to start using banana pells, left over food etc and use the mass it contains to convert it into energy?
how long before thats possible?
I think this article sheds light on the current BS todays media industry is going through:
The reason big media coroporations were built before was to achive the massive physical distribution of the artist's work (cds, tapes etx). The artists inturn needed the corportations because of their size and ability to distribute their music.
Come the Internet -> Coroporations feel threatened, because the internet solves the distribution problem. The artists who produce the music, and are paid by the corporations, are worried that if their work is pirated, they won't get any money out if ---> since the corporations don't make any money if the songs are pirated.
What the artists need to realize is that corporations aren't the only way to recive gratification for their work.
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We have 4 developers doing inhouse development at the place where I work. The web interface programmer uses Java Servelets, the back end guy is forced to deal with Fortran because of lots of legacy code, I'm working with C and Perl in the middle tier. My boss asked me to write wrapper functions for Java which the web developer could use to access my C + Perl functions. I didn't have the patience or time to deal with JNI, so I decided to have a daemon run on the host and listen on a socket. The Java wrappers would recive a request from the web app, serialize it and send it over the a tcp connection on the same host. The C program listening on the other end will have to deserealize it, make sense of what the Java application wants to do, execute the function and send the results back (via serialization etc). Maybe JNI would have been easier, but my point is there is a lot of glue work I have to do just to get the C, Java and Perl talk to each other.
.NET compatible, there would be no ugly glue between apps.
.NET can be the glue which lets all the tools talk to each other. After all the FUD about XML, UDDI, IL, CLR, I think the goal of .NET is interoperability between programs. Which IMHO can make my life alot easier and much better.
.NET lets you integrate all this in one go. If, (I know this isn't possible...yet) every compiler we had was a
Programming languages are the software developers tools much like a mechanic who has his wrench, pliers etc. Analyze the problem and select the tool which will give you maximum productivity. If I have to do alot of string processing, parsing etc, I'd go with Perl, for low level stuff I have C. AI stuff, prolog and lisp (although I'm not too good with prolog, but the damn goal searching,backtracking built in is excellent). You use the tool which will give you maximum flexibility and efficiency to solve your program. A big project can be broken into smaller boxes.
you forgot the 10 gig hard disk, dvd rom, ethernet controller and 256 channel dolby capable soround sound.
2 sacks of pocket change should cover it.
As much as I like unix, I still wouldn't want Windows to go away. It adds a a different OS to the mix. I'd for one be dissapointed if everything in this world starts running Unix. The file based architecture is very good (unicies), but i'd be scarred if that is the only choice I have.
this is where you can download the windows demo version version:
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You tell me how many bussiness men / VCs roam around on slashdot, eh? What good will exposure on slashdot do?
anyswer = little buzz + nothing.
the people who read slashdot are broke college guys, and middle aged sysadmins holding on to the last thread they have in this hell hole of an economy.
no one here but us nerds!
i havn't seen anyone looking at the bright side of this. The script kiddies/worm writters exploit vulnerabilities in the software, plus through social engineering.
Suprising and pretty cool:
the dreamhack people have microsoft as their main sponsors.
how about that *nix people?
back to the future part 2. first scene, the doctor pulls up in his nuclear powered time machine. he needs more power, so he looks through the Marty's garbage dump for fuel. how long will it be before we can start using a mass to energy converter? is it even remotley possible to start using banana pells, left over food etc and use the mass it contains to convert it into energy? how long before thats possible?
I think this article sheds light on the current BS todays media industry is going through: The reason big media coroporations were built before was to achive the massive physical distribution of the artist's work (cds, tapes etx). The artists inturn needed the corportations because of their size and ability to distribute their music. Come the Internet -> Coroporations feel threatened, because the internet solves the distribution problem. The artists who produce the music, and are paid by the corporations, are worried that if their work is pirated, they won't get any money out if ---> since the corporations don't make any money if the songs are pirated. What the artists need to realize is that corporations aren't the only way to recive gratification for their work.
there is no way they'll be able to prosecute anyone. its like trying to patent the 'for' loop. jeez http://www.webskeleton.com