Hey, just because some Brit gets off on tarring all Americans with the same brush, doesn't make it right to do the same to Europeans.
Remember, Europe is a collection of a whole bunch of very different countries. I mean, just because Cuba and the USA are geographically close doesn't make them alike.
Give the guy a break, his Uni is in the Phillipines and probably does qualify as high-performance given the budgets they have and their current equipment. Castigate the editor who posted the story before bitching at this poor sap.
England and Wales are not the same. England, Wales and Scotland go to form Great Britain, add in Northern Ireland and you have the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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And I might add, that the European concept of "right-wing" would fall into the American "moderate left" category. So you might as well view the whole of Western Europe as ruled by social democrats.
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Eh? "the resurgance of the Conservatives in Britain, and the collapse of the left acrsoss the entire globe since 1989."
Where have you been? The left is firmly ensconced in power in the UK (Labour Party) and continental Europe, with the exception of the Republic of Ireland and Spain, whose governments are right wing and conservative. In recent elections in France, the left took Paris for the first time in over 100 years. You're completely misinformed.
I fail to see how your post has anything to with mine, you ignorant fuckwit. Perhaps you responded to my post by mistake? But while I'm here... monopolies also exist where governments allow them to exist and legislate against anyone else competing in the same space, e.g., telco monopolies in Europe. Dipstick.
Thanks for the feedback, everyone. Think I'll read up on this, in general the feedback is very positive. BTW, I wasn't suggesting that I couldn't explain something I was doing, just that it would take longer to do so than to complete the task.
My experience is that others tend to focus on style instead of substance, criticising variable naming conventions and the like instead of focusing on finding the actual bugs in code. This is during peer reviews, mind you, I have no experience of pair programming.
Don't know if this is addressed in the literature, but wouldn't you have to ensure that in each pair both developers have equal skillsets and productivity rates?Personally, having to explain everything that I do as I go along would drive me nuts, as a lot of it comes from the fugue that you sometimes enter when coding, when you're "in the zone", so to speak. It's often easier to just do something than to explain it to someone else.alf the fun for me is that developing *is* a solitary activity... I enjoy that.
People find it really irritating if you say something retarded, as I did, they lunge in to slap you down and you immediately roll over, going "Oops, you're right." They've wasted valuable anti-troll energy!
Sheesh, so it is... where the hell did I get deforestation from? Yes, Fenetre (missing accents) is French for window, but I was talking about German, and in German, window is fenster.
Yes, it's a crime in Germany and maybe other European countries to deny or minimise the holocaust. I can hear all the little diaper-wearing, college kiddie/.ers sucking in a breath to begin screaming about censorship being BAD BAD BAD.
I hasten to add that the project tanked...:-(...although the software worked well.
Management decided to go fully UNIX / Java for what appeared to be political reasons. Oh well. They managed to alienate 75% of their developers, wipe out their existing knowledge base and lose most IT business knowledge through resignations, etc.
Hmmm, this makes me sound like a disgruntled former employee (I am!) so I'll stop now.
With regard to RPG vs. C and C++, I'm not advocating the use of RPG only, just trying to enlighten some of the knee-jerk RPG dissers out there...:-)
I actually don't develop in RPG any more, I do Java / J2EE stuff -- I agree, RPG is slowly disappearing. The AS/400 is a killer Java server platofrm, though. There's a nice transition path out there for those who currently know / use only RPG.
Reagrding the modernisation of RPG applications, I couldn't agree more. If fact, I spent 1998 through 1999 as lead architect on a large project where we took the monolithic, green-screen RPG apps for the largest car rental co. in the US and rewrote them using ILE RPG, O.O./modular principles, and sat a browser-based front end on the whole thing. Great fun!
Having developed on IBM i-Series servers (i.e., AS/400 systems) since the launch of Silverlake in 1988 until 1999, I can assure those that criticise these systems that when developingbusiness applications, modernised RPG is far more productive than other languages such as C and C++.
All of the criticisms usually levelled at RPG haven't applied in over a decade, such as:
1. Fixed format syntax (not true since the advent of RPG/400 many moons ago)
2. Monolithic programs (not true since the advent of ILE, supports static and dynamic binding)
3. No language interoperability (again, see ILE)
4. Performance (with IBMs expertise in compilers, RPG has always been *very* fast)
I could go on but won't, as I am sure I've bored the hell out of everyone by now. I just love AS/400 / iSeries systems, and wish IBM would do a better job marketing their strengths.
"little Achmed or Pei-Pei can do their CS homework on Linux...while Johnny and Shawna relearn the OSX interface." br>
Seems stereotyping is alive and well.
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Hey, just because some Brit gets off on tarring all Americans with the same brush, doesn't make it right to do the same to Europeans.
Remember, Europe is a collection of a whole bunch of very different countries. I mean, just because Cuba and the USA are geographically close doesn't make them alike.
Don't forget lager louts.
"the Clinton administration wanted to boycot any business doing trade with Cuba, Europe threatened with a trade war and Clinton never signed."
On the contrary, this was passed into law and is known as the Helms-Burton Act.
An Irishman living in the USA
There already is a tool called cURL (see http://curl.haxx.se). It's a handy tool to use when scripting website walkaround scripts and the like.
Give the guy a break, his Uni is in the Phillipines and probably does qualify as high-performance given the budgets they have and their current equipment. Castigate the editor who posted the story before bitching at this poor sap.
England and Wales are not the same. England, Wales and Scotland go to form Great Britain, add in Northern Ireland and you have the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
And I might add, that the European concept of "right-wing" would fall into the American "moderate left" category. So you might as well view the whole of Western Europe as ruled by social democrats.
Eh? "the resurgance of the Conservatives in Britain, and the collapse of the left acrsoss the entire globe since 1989."
Where have you been? The left is firmly ensconced in power in the UK (Labour Party) and continental Europe, with the exception of the Republic of Ireland and Spain, whose governments are right wing and conservative. In recent elections in France, the left took Paris for the first time in over 100 years. You're completely misinformed.
I fail to see how your post has anything to with mine, you ignorant fuckwit. Perhaps you responded to my post by mistake? But while I'm here... monopolies also exist where governments allow them to exist and legislate against anyone else competing in the same space, e.g., telco monopolies in Europe. Dipstick.
"where individuals can produce high quality content" Your system does not make this happen. Talent makes this happen. God I hate marketing nonsense.
Thanks for the feedback, everyone. Think I'll read up on this, in general the feedback is very positive. BTW, I wasn't suggesting that I couldn't explain something I was doing, just that it would take longer to do so than to complete the task.
My experience is that others tend to focus on style instead of substance, criticising variable naming conventions and the like instead of focusing on finding the actual bugs in code. This is during peer reviews, mind you, I have no experience of pair programming.
Don't know if this is addressed in the literature, but wouldn't you have to ensure that in each pair both developers have equal skillsets and productivity rates? Personally, having to explain everything that I do as I go along would drive me nuts, as a lot of it comes from the fugue that you sometimes enter when coding, when you're "in the zone", so to speak. It's often easier to just do something than to explain it to someone else. alf the fun for me is that developing *is* a solitary activity... I enjoy that.
Yes. What is so difficult to understand about that?
People find it really irritating if you say something retarded, as I did, they lunge in to slap you down and you immediately roll over, going "Oops, you're right." They've wasted valuable anti-troll energy!
I am trolling.
Sheesh, so it is... where the hell did I get deforestation from? Yes, Fenetre (missing accents) is French for window, but I was talking about German, and in German, window is fenster.
"Defenestration" is deforestation, and does not have anything to do with the German word for "window", i.e., "fenster".
You are scum.
Yes, it's a crime in Germany and maybe other European countries to deny or minimise the holocaust. I can hear all the little diaper-wearing, college kiddie /.ers sucking in a breath to begin screaming about censorship being BAD BAD BAD.
I hasten to add that the project tanked... :-( ...although the software worked well.
Management decided to go fully UNIX / Java for what appeared to be political reasons. Oh well. They managed to alienate 75% of their developers, wipe out their existing knowledge base and lose most IT business knowledge through resignations, etc.
Hmmm, this makes me sound like a disgruntled former employee (I am!) so I'll stop now.
Good point, it is still partially fixed-format.
:-)
With regard to RPG vs. C and C++, I'm not advocating the use of RPG only, just trying to enlighten some of the knee-jerk RPG dissers out there...
I actually don't develop in RPG any more, I do Java / J2EE stuff -- I agree, RPG is slowly disappearing. The AS/400 is a killer Java server platofrm, though. There's a nice transition path out there for those who currently know / use only RPG.
Reagrding the modernisation of RPG applications, I couldn't agree more. If fact, I spent 1998 through 1999 as lead architect on a large project where we took the monolithic, green-screen RPG apps for the largest car rental co. in the US and rewrote them using ILE RPG, O.O./modular principles, and sat a browser-based front end on the whole thing. Great fun!
Having developed on IBM i-Series servers (i.e., AS/400 systems) since the launch of Silverlake in 1988 until 1999, I can assure those that criticise these systems that when developingbusiness applications, modernised RPG is far more productive than other languages such as C and C++.
All of the criticisms usually levelled at RPG haven't applied in over a decade, such as:
1. Fixed format syntax (not true since the advent of RPG/400 many moons ago)
2. Monolithic programs (not true since the advent of ILE, supports static and dynamic binding)
3. No language interoperability (again, see ILE)
4. Performance (with IBMs expertise in compilers, RPG has always been *very* fast)
I could go on but won't, as I am sure I've bored the hell out of everyone by now. I just love AS/400 / iSeries systems, and wish IBM would do a better job marketing their strengths.
"little Achmed or Pei-Pei can do their CS homework on Linux...while Johnny and Shawna relearn the OSX interface."
br> Seems stereotyping is alive and well.
Very droll.