Hear, hear! I'll never understand this idea that if a company makes a lot of money from a quality product, that it's OK to steal it. Or better yet, if someone feels a company is charging too much for a product, it's OK to steal it. Or the best: if I can download this movie for free, it will encourage me to steal^H^H^H^H^H buy more DVDs!
I almost bought a microprocessor running Forth recently, but I couldn't pull the trigger (IsoPod). I used Forth many years ago, and it seemed cool, but the problem I have with it is still there... even in this review, everyone always says Forth is great for embedded apps, but it can never be explained in a way that speaks to my inner geek.
I just can't buy that you need to have a religious experience in order to understand why a language has benefits.
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Marvin and Rodney (Brooks) have been trading potshots for a while now. Battle of the top-downers vs. the bottom-uppers.
Can't we all just get along?
-Shane
Neither this nor Social Computing is the next killer app... Social Grid Computing is.
Hear, hear! I'll never understand this idea that if a company makes a lot of money from a quality product, that it's OK to steal it. Or better yet, if someone feels a company is charging too much for a product, it's OK to steal it. Or the best: if I can download this movie for free, it will encourage me to steal^H^H^H^H^H buy more DVDs!
The mind boggles.
-Shane
I almost bought a microprocessor running Forth recently, but I couldn't pull the trigger (IsoPod). I used Forth many years ago, and it seemed cool, but the problem I have with it is still there... even in this review, everyone always says Forth is great for embedded apps, but it can never be explained in a way that speaks to my inner geek.
I just can't buy that you need to have a religious experience in order to understand why a language has benefits.
-Shane
-Shane