The reason I am paid a fraction of what a US programmer makes has nothing to do with my skills or my ability to negotiate a decent compensation package. In fact, I am very well paid by the standards of my country.
Goddamn! How about option 4: THEY kick US programmers' ass when it comes to the quality of the code AND the quality of the design? I happen to be a fucking elbonian programmer (for an EXTREMELY reputable hardware/software shop) and I can't even count the number of times our team had to fix b0rked code and lousy design created by USian programmers. What do you say in this situation? Maybe go learn how to write proper code instead of whining?
Is anybody successful in making JAVA work (on NT)? I tried tonight's build (I don't think it is that much different that M12), copied npjava*.dll files from the JRE (1.2.2) to the "plugins" directory, but nothing interesting happens (ony an applet frame is displayed). Am I missing something obvious here ?
I seem to fail to see anything in C++ that makes it inherently slower than C. Having written in both, I can tell you that I am able to actually write faster code in C++ than in C, not to mention that I make MUCH fewer stupid mistakes because of better type checking etc. If you use features such as polymorphism or RTTI, of course you get a performance hit, but if you try to implement the same things in C manually, you won't get any better results.
Slowness of the program comes from sloppy programming, it has nothing to do with the language.
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The reason I am paid a fraction of what a US programmer makes has nothing to do with my skills or my ability to negotiate a decent compensation package. In fact, I am very well paid by the standards of my country.
Goddamn! How about option 4: THEY kick US programmers' ass when it comes to the quality of the code AND the quality of the design? I happen to be a fucking elbonian programmer (for an EXTREMELY reputable hardware/software shop) and I can't even count the number of times our team had to fix b0rked code and lousy design created by USian programmers. What do you say in this situation? Maybe go learn how to write proper code instead of whining?
Is anybody successful in making JAVA work (on NT)? I tried tonight's build (I don't think it is that much different that M12), copied npjava*.dll files from the JRE (1.2.2) to the "plugins" directory, but nothing interesting happens (ony an applet frame is displayed). Am I missing something obvious here ?
If you use features such as polymorphism or RTTI, of course you get a performance hit, but if you try to implement the same things in C manually, you won't get any better results.
Slowness of the program comes from sloppy programming, it has nothing to do with the language.