C++ is also a mess because it has to support backward compatibility for a huge amount of code already written for the industry. Blaming just the commitee for it is ignoring history.
Actually, if you enable {-# LANGUAGE IncoherentInstances #-}, type classes gain much of the problmeatic semantics of C++, it's just that this is disabled by default, which is good.
This just moves the problem, because now you need to know when to call GC before your memory floods (which once again, is more likely to happen in some real time environments)
In Haskell both 'concepts' and 'virtual function interfaces' have the same name and syntax, 'type classes'. The only thing that differentiates between them is a pragma called SPECIALIZE which decides on which implementation to used. It is too bad, but not surprising, that C++ insists on forcing duality where it is not needed.
For some real time needs, it is more important to have the "payment" spread all over in a determinstic way rather than appearing all at once at a random point in time.
I also have a patent on my name, and I can tell you that the main reason that I got it was not innovative talent or good mathematical background. I got it because our company had good lawyers.
I did. I know that there are some skills that I will never have, therefore I try to find tools to handle these skills for me. I agree with you that fad chasing is bad, but I also think that there are skills that I want to move from humans to computers, and this is done by creating/promoting new tools.
The whole point of tools is to compensate for insufficient skills. If you think otherwise, please ditch your dog and improve your sense of smell, please ditch your knife and fork and use your teeth, etc.
So let me get this straight, what you are essentially saying is "All people that I don't agree with on this lie, I am saying the truth, and I'll prove it by shouting loud", right? Why should I believe you and not them?
(btw, I am not sure about trans issues, but I know people that reported false rape, that's another thing that I keep being told is "nonexistant")
In the past we used to have an open standard for messaging that was supported by mainstream messengers, it was called Jabber. In the past we had universal messengers that worked with all services. Now it seems like everybody insists on rolling his own (snapchat, tinder, facebook, google, kik, whatever).
"If you think C++ is "unpredictable" then you just don't know the language all that well."
If the language is that complex to learn, it's what I call unpredictable. btw, I've been professionally programming in C++ for several years now, I was chief C++ programmer in the past, and I admit I don't know the language 100% and still get surprises once a while.
Then again, who knows, maybe it's just me, and nobody else has that problem.
The real problem with C++ is not slowness, but being too complex and unpredictable. I think that what will happen is that C will get the few good features from C++, and the rest will die.
One such example is the "cleanup" attribute in gcc, and I suspect that unique/shared pointers will find some way to become a part of C language as well, either through an extension or through an official standard.
In Haskell you can write functions that support C calling convention and can be called from anywhere, I am sure the same is true for other languages. Just because someone uses the C calling convention does not mean he is using C.
Already mentioned, but I'll repeat, Cixin Liu's "Earth's rememberance" series, starting from "three body problem". One of the more original science fiction books that I've got to read. I also think that the author's chinese nationality allowed him to avoid adhering to western political correctness, which allowed a story that is more varied than many western stories today.
In Israel there was an interesting case a few years ago. An adult woman called Riki Ovadia had invited 10-13 year olds to her apartment to have sex, repeatedly. Feminists actually insisted that the kids "took advantage" of her.
You are correct that it doesn't affect you. It does affect people who live in Israel. Specifically, secular jews who don't want to have tradition controlling their lives (Israel does not have separation of church and state, which causes rabbis to control divorce, corrupted kosher license taxing, forced rest in Saturdays, and probably others). However, it's not only secular jews, Arabs that live in Israel are also suffering from various forms of presecution. There are jews that burn mosques. A few years ago an Arab youth was beaten by several Israeli youths. He was a vegetable for more than 12 months. Out of the guys that beat him, the one that got the worse punishment got 8 months in jail. If it was a jewish youth who was beaten, things would be very different. The state also manipulates budgets so that jewish insititutes get more money than arab ones. Calls of "Kill all arabs" are not uncommon in Israel, that's not the kind of thing for which we arrest people here. Ofcourse that when someone calls "kill all jews", it's different.
I do agree with you that Islam is probably more dangerous to the world than judaism, since, as you said, Islam is more colonialistic. I'm just saying that for people living under jewish rule, Judaism may become just as shitty as Islam, especially if things keep going the way they are (Israel is becoming more and more like its neighbors). Then again, that's not your problem, but ours:(
In the past at least, lots of artists wanted flash, because no one provided an easy alternative to do light bandwidth vector animation. Today I see people watching flash videos as youtube videos, with more lag than the originals had on old connections. While I agree that flash had tons of security problems, it did fulfill a need.
While Judaism is not missionary, it can be very cruel towards its own people. I.e. gays deserve death, circumsision, lack of women's rights, forced rest in sabbath, etc. Also, part of the reason Judaism is not missionary is because it is very racist. Jews are considered to be "the chosen people", you don't want to mix in too many "goys" with that. Even today, there are many religious jews who will tell you that there are different level of souls for different creatures. The soul of a human is higher than the soul of an animal, and the soul of the jew is higher than the soul of a goy.
p.s. To all people that are going to accuse me of not knowing Judaism and/or being antisemitic, I'm both an Israeli and a Jew.
Considering the latest DDoS attack coming from Linux machines (yes, IoT machines are Linux), one can claim that lately Linux has a worse security track record than Windows. In reality, I suspect that correct configuration is much more important than choice of OS.
(And now to get downmodded for daring to say that LInux is not better than Windows)
Most women don't want to be whores either, and yet there are more female whores than male whores. I do not think most men want to be soldiers. I think society tries to force people into roles they don't want. For a woman it's a thing of beauty, for a man it's a thing of murder.
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C++ is also a mess because it has to support backward compatibility for a huge amount of code already written for the industry. Blaming just the commitee for it is ignoring history.
Actually, if you enable {-# LANGUAGE IncoherentInstances #-}, type classes gain much of the problmeatic semantics of C++, it's just that this is disabled by default, which is good.
This just moves the problem, because now you need to know when to call GC before your memory floods (which once again, is more likely to happen in some real time environments)
In Haskell both 'concepts' and 'virtual function interfaces' have the same name and syntax, 'type classes'. The only thing that differentiates between them is a pragma called SPECIALIZE which decides on which implementation to used. It is too bad, but not surprising, that C++ insists on forcing duality where it is not needed.
For some real time needs, it is more important to have the "payment" spread all over in a determinstic way rather than appearing all at once at a random point in time.
I also have a patent on my name, and I can tell you that the main reason that I got it was not innovative talent or good mathematical background. I got it because our company had good lawyers.
Is there any secure virtual machine around? Because I have yet to see one.
I did. I know that there are some skills that I will never have, therefore I try to find tools to handle these skills for me. I agree with you that fad chasing is bad, but I also think that there are skills that I want to move from humans to computers, and this is done by creating/promoting new tools.
The whole point of tools is to compensate for insufficient skills. If you think otherwise, please ditch your dog and improve your sense of smell, please ditch your knife and fork and use your teeth, etc.
So let me get this straight, what you are essentially saying is "All people that I don't agree with on this lie, I am saying the truth, and I'll prove it by shouting loud", right? Why should I believe you and not them?
(btw, I am not sure about trans issues, but I know people that reported false rape, that's another thing that I keep being told is "nonexistant")
In the past we used to have an open standard for messaging that was supported by mainstream messengers, it was called Jabber. In the past we had universal messengers that worked with all services. Now it seems like everybody insists on rolling his own (snapchat, tinder, facebook, google, kik, whatever).
"If you think C++ is "unpredictable" then you just don't know the language all that well."
If the language is that complex to learn, it's what I call unpredictable. btw, I've been professionally programming in C++ for several years now, I was chief C++ programmer in the past, and I admit I don't know the language 100% and still get surprises once a while.
Then again, who knows, maybe it's just me, and nobody else has that problem.
The real problem with C++ is not slowness, but being too complex and unpredictable. I think that what will happen is that C will get the few good features from C++, and the rest will die.
One such example is the "cleanup" attribute in gcc, and I suspect that unique/shared pointers will find some way to become a part of C language as well, either through an extension or through an official standard.
In Haskell you can write functions that support C calling convention and can be called from anywhere, I am sure the same is true for other languages. Just because someone uses the C calling convention does not mean he is using C.
Already mentioned, but I'll repeat, Cixin Liu's "Earth's rememberance" series, starting from "three body problem". One of the more original science fiction books that I've got to read. I also think that the author's chinese nationality allowed him to avoid adhering to western political correctness, which allowed a story that is more varied than many western stories today.
In Israel there was an interesting case a few years ago. An adult woman called Riki Ovadia had invited 10-13 year olds to her apartment to have sex, repeatedly. Feminists actually insisted that the kids "took advantage" of her.
You are correct that it doesn't affect you. It does affect people who live in Israel. Specifically, secular jews who don't want to have tradition controlling their lives (Israel does not have separation of church and state, which causes rabbis to control divorce, corrupted kosher license taxing, forced rest in Saturdays, and probably others). However, it's not only secular jews, Arabs that live in Israel are also suffering from various forms of presecution. There are jews that burn mosques. A few years ago an Arab youth was beaten by several Israeli youths. He was a vegetable for more than 12 months. Out of the guys that beat him, the one that got the worse punishment got 8 months in jail. If it was a jewish youth who was beaten, things would be very different. The state also manipulates budgets so that jewish insititutes get more money than arab ones. Calls of "Kill all arabs" are not uncommon in Israel, that's not the kind of thing for which we arrest people here. Ofcourse that when someone calls "kill all jews", it's different.
I do agree with you that Islam is probably more dangerous to the world than judaism, since, as you said, Islam is more colonialistic. I'm just saying that for people living under jewish rule, Judaism may become just as shitty as Islam, especially if things keep going the way they are (Israel is becoming more and more like its neighbors). Then again, that's not your problem, but ours :(
In the past at least, lots of artists wanted flash, because no one provided an easy alternative to do light bandwidth vector animation. Today I see people watching flash videos as youtube videos, with more lag than the originals had on old connections. While I agree that flash had tons of security problems, it did fulfill a need.
While Judaism is not missionary, it can be very cruel towards its own people. I.e. gays deserve death, circumsision, lack of women's rights, forced rest in sabbath, etc. Also, part of the reason Judaism is not missionary is because it is very racist. Jews are considered to be "the chosen people", you don't want to mix in too many "goys" with that. Even today, there are many religious jews who will tell you that there are different level of souls for different creatures. The soul of a human is higher than the soul of an animal, and the soul of the jew is higher than the soul of a goy.
p.s. To all people that are going to accuse me of not knowing Judaism and/or being antisemitic, I'm both an Israeli and a Jew.
Strawman fallacy
With digital signatures for messages, used EVERYWHERE, this would not happen.
Considering the latest DDoS attack coming from Linux machines (yes, IoT machines are Linux), one can claim that lately Linux has a worse security track record than Windows. In reality, I suspect that correct configuration is much more important than choice of OS.
(And now to get downmodded for daring to say that LInux is not better than Windows)
Ecuador, I thought we were friends. You constantly gave me free math and cs ebooks during my thesis, what happened? I thought we were friends?
"Most women who becomes prostitutes are tricked" - and what is "patriotic duty" if not a trick?
Most women don't want to be whores either, and yet there are more female whores than male whores. I do not think most men want to be soldiers. I think society tries to force people into roles they don't want. For a woman it's a thing of beauty, for a man it's a thing of murder.