Linux is also proving popular in the public sector. Governments like the idea of not paying a proprietary vendor huge licensing fees for years and years.
The Apple brand is cool right now, and that perceived hipness is a major selling point for Apple.
Yup, right. But Apple is doing other things right, too - like Mac OS X being a solid operating system based on Mach and various BSDs. We run our web and CVS server on OS X and it's cranking along just fine.
Heh. I'm looking at an August 1984 copy of "80 Micro", which was a magazine for TRS-80 users. On page 50 there's an article called "One-Liners" by a fellow named Harold Fink. Here's one of the better ones:
Whew. That's only about half of it. But you get the idea. This was a feature article, too... a real barn burner.
Linux and "Netscape" lead the statistics...
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...right here. Netscape == Mozilla, and such, I bet.
Have to remember to check that page a day or two from now... there'll be a new "busiest hour", probably.
Question #4 from the SCO "Linux Q & A"....
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...as of May, 2003 (seems to have disappeared since then) was this:
Q: How does this action affect SCO's involvement with UnitedLinux? A: SCO is a founding member of the UnitedLinux consortium. With that said, SCO Linux Server 4.0, Powered by UnitedLinux sales will be suspended with this announcement. SCO will continue to fulfill its obligations to the UnitedLinux consortium.
> There is nothing, and I do mean NOTHING that > a real Unix professional can do with Python > or Perl that he or she can't do with awk, sed, > and grep.
Awk? Sed? Bah! There's nothing you can do in awk and sed that you can't do with plain, simple assembly language opcodes!
I prefer Ruby, but there seem to be a lot of healthy discussions of various language features and ideas across the scripting language community. The "Python comparison page", for example, has a link to John Ousterhout's paper on why scripting languages are useful - even thought he wrote the paper about Tcl, it's just as applicable to Python or Ruby.
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For one thing, I don't think gamers will tolerate it. There are pay-to-play MMORPGs now, but people are willing to pay for those because there's a good reason. Servers have to be hosted, content has to be added, players have to be policed. There's no corresponding reason in a single-player game of Half-Life, and there's no evidence to suggest that gamers will be willing to pay monthly if there's no justification for it.
I'm certainly happy to have an actual CD of DOOM II so I can work on Ruby-DOOM on whichever computer I'm closest to.
Oh, I don't know. Ruby has a decent number of tools available. There's mod_ruby and a bunch of templating/web application libraries like Amrita and Cerise.
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...DOOM.
With updated source code available, plenty of improvements, and lots of ways to create your own maps, there's plenty to do before HL2 comes out!
So true. Running on Linux baby!
...to send Cougaar society status messages around - we've been able to get around 1100 messages (albeit simple ones) per second.
We're using the Ruby wrapper Jabber4R as well as various GUI clients, and we're using the Jabber 1.4.2 server.
...on starting a company is right here.
Lots of similar ideas there, including a few rants against VCs and incubators.
...is right here.
Lots of discussions on library dependencies and Kaffe and such like are in the January archives.
Yup, and there are wrappers for it in a variety of languages:
WxRuby
WxPython
Good stuff.
Yup, right. But Apple is doing other things right, too - like Mac OS X being a solid operating system based on Mach and various BSDs. We run our web and CVS server on OS X and it's cranking along just fine.
Heh. Note the usual exponential decay in activity. Fickleness, thy name is Slashdot.
...right here. Netscape == Mozilla, and such, I bet.
Have to remember to check that page a day or two from now... there'll be a new "busiest hour", probably.
Truly, a masterful side-stepping of the question.
...is going the right way so far today.
...right here. They also have Ultra 60s, 80s, etc.
> rather than commenting on the value of the
> Python book itself
Hmm... I see a book review as a starting point for spawning off discussions - linking to a page discussing Pythons pros and cons seems reasonable.
> commenting on common foes to all
> lightweight languages
Foe, or design choice?
> There is nothing, and I do mean NOTHING that
> a real Unix professional can do with Python
> or Perl that he or she can't do with awk, sed,
> and grep.
Awk? Sed? Bah! There's nothing you can do in awk and sed that you can't do with plain, simple assembly language opcodes!
...can be found here.
I prefer Ruby, but there seem to be a lot of healthy discussions of various language features and ideas across the scripting language community. The "Python comparison page", for example, has a link to John Ousterhout's paper on why scripting languages are useful - even thought he wrote the paper about Tcl, it's just as applicable to Python or Ruby.
Another one here, just in case.
I'm certainly happy to have an actual CD of DOOM II so I can work on Ruby-DOOM on whichever computer I'm closest to.
> to equal 4, not 22
Hm. In Ruby that'll raise an exception:But of course, you could do:orto get whatever result you want.
> Give your users Jabber
Yup, Jabber's good stuff. You can script it using Ruby, too, which is nice.
Everyone knows that LOAF is the _real_next big thing. It's already implemented in a bunch of languages.
But don't take my word for it - you can read the whole story on LOAF right here.
> Probably a better candidate than Ruby
Oh, I don't know. Ruby has a decent number of tools available. There's mod_ruby and a bunch of templating/web application libraries like Amrita and Cerise.
> you're pushing your Ruby again
Nah, just spreading the joy.
> Love that empty sourceforge site of yours!
Hm. The download area for the mindstorms project is here... I guess I'm not sure what you're referring to...
Ruby
Java
Python
Good times!
...for processing the data from the microelectrode arrays.
Yes, the above link goes to another web site called "bionictech.com", but the two companies merged in 2002.