Jesus, Michael, learn to give your posts at least a cursory fucking spell check before you hit that submit button. I mean, christ, i know you want to get back to downloading bestiality clips but settle down long enough to look your posts over.
Gentlemen, the time has come for a serious discussion on whether or not to continue using C for serious programming projects. As I will explain, I feel that C needs to be retired, much the same way that Fortran, Cobol and Perl have been. Furthermore, allow me to be so bold as to suggest a superior replacement to this outdated language.
To give you a little background on this subject, I was recently asked to develop a client/server project on a Unix platform for a Fortune 500 company. While I've never coded in C before I have coded in VB for fifteen years, and in Java for over ten, I was stunned to see how poorly C fared compared to these two, more low-level languages.
C's biggest difficulty, as we all know, is the fact that it is by far one of the slowest languages in existance, especially when compared to more modern languages such as Java. Although the reasons for this are varied, the main reasons seems to be the way C requires a programmer to laboriously work with chunks of memory.
Requiring a programmer to manipulate blocks of memory is a tedious way to program. This was satisfactory back in the early days of coding, but then again, so were punchcards. By using what are called "pointers" a C programmer is basically requiring the computer to do three sets of work rather than one. The first time requires the computer to duplicate whatever is stored in the memory space "pointed to" by the pointer. The second time requires it to perform the needed operation on this space. Finally the computer must delete the duplicate set and set the values of the original accordingly.
Clearly this is a horrendous use of resources and the chief reason why C is so slow. When one looks at a more modern (and a more serious) programming language like Java or, even better, Visual Basic, that lacks such archaic coding styles, one will also note a serious speed increase over C.
So what does this mean for the programming community? I think clearly that C needs to be abandonded. There are two candidates that would be a suitable replacement for it. Those are Java and Visual Basic.
Having programmed in both for many years, I believe that VB has the edge. Not only is it slightly faster than Java its also much easier to code in. I found C to be confusing, frightening and intimidating with its non-GUI-based coding style. Furthermore, I like to see the source code of the projects I work with. Java's source seems to be under the monopolistic thumb of Sun much the way that GCC is obscured from us by the marketing people at the FSF. Microsoft's "shared source" under which Visual Basic is released definately seems to be the most fair and reasonable of all the licenses in existance, with none of the harsh restrictions of the BSD license. It also lacks the GPLs requirement that anything coded with its tools becomes property of the FSF.
I hope to see a switch to VB very soon. I've already spoken with various luminaries in the *nix coding world and most are eager to begin to transition. Having just gotten off the phone with Mr. Alan Cox, I can say that he is quite thrilled with the speed increases that will occur when the Linux kernel is completely rewritten in Visual Basic. Richard Stallman plans to support this, and hopes that the great Swede himself, Linus Torvaldis, won't object to renaming Linux to VB/Linux. Although not a C coder himself, I'm told that Slashdot's very own Admiral Taco will support this on his web site.
Gentlemen, the time has come for a serious discussion on whether or not to continue using C for serious programming projects. As I will explain, I feel that C needs to be retired, much the same way that Fortran, Cobol and Perl have been. Furthermore, allow me to be so bold as to suggest a superior replacement to this outdated language.
To give you a little background on this subject, I was recently asked to develop a client/server project on a Unix platform for a Fortune 500 company. While I've never coded in C before I have coded in VB for fifteen years, and in Java for over ten, I was stunned to see how poorly C fared compared to these two, more low-level languages.
C's biggest difficulty, as we all know, is the fact that it is by far one of the slowest languages in existance, especially when compared to more modern languages such as Java. Although the reasons for this are varied, the main reasons seems to be the way C requires a programmer to laboriously work with chunks of memory.
Requiring a programmer to manipulate blocks of memory is a tedious way to program. This was satisfactory back in the early days of coding, but then again, so were punchcards. By using what are called "pointers" a C programmer is basically requiring the computer to do three sets of work rather than one. The first time requires the computer to duplicate whatever is stored in the memory space "pointed to" by the pointer. The second time requires it to perform the needed operation on this space. Finally the computer must delete the duplicate set and set the values of the original accordingly.
Clearly this is a horrendous use of resources and the chief reason why C is so slow. When one looks at a more modern (and a more serious) programming language like Java or, even better, Visual Basic, that lacks such archaic coding styles, one will also note a serious speed increase over C.
So what does this mean for the programming community? I think clearly that C needs to be abandonded. There are two candidates that would be a suitable replacement for it. Those are Java and Visual Basic.
Having programmed in both for many years, I believe that VB has the edge. Not only is it slightly faster than Java its also much easier to code in. I found C to be confusing, frightening and intimidating with its non-GUI-based coding style. Furthermore, I like to see the source code of the projects I work with. Java's source seems to be under the monopolistic thumb of Sun much the way that GCC is obscured from us by the marketing people at the FSF. Microsoft's "shared source" under which Visual Basic is released definately seems to be the most fair and reasonable of all the licenses in existance, with none of the harsh restrictions of the BSD license. It also lacks the GPLs requirement that anything coded with its tools becomes property of the FSF.
I hope to see a switch to VB very soon. I've already spoken with various luminaries in the *nix coding world and most are eager to begin to transition. Having just gotten off the phone with Mr. Alan Cox, I can say that he is quite thrilled with the speed increases that will occur when the Linux kernel is completely rewritten in Visual Basic. Richard Stallman plans to support this, and hopes that the great Swede himself, Linus Torvaldis, won't object to renaming Linux to VB/Linux. Although not a C coder himself, I'm told that Slashdot's very own Admiral Taco will support this on his web site.
You might find this link entertaining: http://www.log.dial.pipex.com/playground/html/news.htm
My favorite quote from these playground sayings:
andy graham disease Can be contracted by passing within a few feet of Andy Graham, the poor kid, or by eating custard at school dinners. (Only Andy Graham would eat the stuff, and we assumed it was because he was so poor and didn't have food at home). The only cure was to be wrestled to the ground by a group of kids screaming "NURSE!" and pretending to spray you with aerosol. Sometimes, if the afflicted person was unpopular, nobody would attempt to cure them for fear of contamination themselves. Thus, sat at the back of the class with no mates, when the teacher asked what the matter was, the often tearful child would mutter "I've got the Andy Graham Disease sir". (Steve McDonald)
I do nothing but bash that turd of an OS here on Slashdot. View my history, kind sir. Of course I post at -1 because I don't fall in line with the mindless Slashdot groupthink, but thats okay. Many before me were put down and abused by those who sought to preserve their status: Galileo, Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Paul Ruebens. So it goes with myself.
KDE will still be a hunk of shit while MS will have a solid, stable OS used on 99% of the desktops. Linux, on the other hand, will still be trying to get half the video cards on the market to support it. Haha! Linux sucks now and it'll suck five years from now, turd burglar! Haw! Haw! Haw!
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KDE is nothing more than a sore upon the Open Source community. Its the GUI chosen by most child molesters, arsonist and Canadians. The Linux community needs to ban KDE from spreading. This GUI is so filthy I almost feel the need to vomit just from mentioning those three letters. Let smite this GUI before it changes its name to what it truly is, the NAMBLA GUI.
I always pretended my "bad" Legos had cooties. If the "good" Legos approached the bad ones, they'd die of some horrible cootie disease that would swiftly spread to the rest of the good Legos.
...do the pirates board the sailboat and kidnap the girl. Thirteen years later she becomes their sexual slave, forced to do all manner of disgusting things to the pirates? Can you post that part of the story? I'm hard up for some wanking material lately (no pun intended.)
I dunno dude. Ass kinda smells like ass no matter who its from. But hey, I'm like Frank in Blue Velvet: "I'll fuck anything that moves." Either that or: "Baby wants to fuck! Baby wants to fuck Blue Velvet!"
With Claire Danes you don't need to build up immunities. She is free from the normal fecal bacteria that you and I have. The only thing that ever comes from her bung is pure honey, and my face is the toast upon which she may spread it.
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Quite well, actually. I have a bag of Skittles here and the Tenacious D album, so everything is peachy. And how are you today, AC?
Jesus, Michael, learn to give your posts at least a cursory fucking spell check before you hit that submit button. I mean, christ, i know you want to get back to downloading bestiality clips but settle down long enough to look your posts over.
Gentlemen, the time has come for a serious discussion on whether or not to continue using C for serious programming projects. As I will explain, I feel that C needs to be retired, much the same way that Fortran, Cobol and Perl have been. Furthermore, allow me to be so bold as to suggest a superior replacement to this outdated language.
To give you a little background on this subject, I was recently asked to develop a client/server project on a Unix platform for a Fortune 500 company. While I've never coded in C before I have coded in VB for fifteen years, and in Java for over ten, I was stunned to see how poorly C fared compared to these two, more low-level languages.
C's biggest difficulty, as we all know, is the fact that it is by far one of the slowest languages in existance, especially when compared to more modern languages such as Java. Although the reasons for this are varied, the main reasons seems to be the way C requires a programmer to laboriously work with chunks of memory.
Requiring a programmer to manipulate blocks of memory is a tedious way to program. This was satisfactory back in the early days of coding, but then again, so were punchcards. By using what are called "pointers" a C programmer is basically requiring the computer to do three sets of work rather than one. The first time requires the computer to duplicate whatever is stored in the memory space "pointed to" by the pointer. The second time requires it to perform the needed operation on this space. Finally the computer must delete the duplicate set and set the values of the original accordingly.
Clearly this is a horrendous use of resources and the chief reason why C is so slow. When one looks at a more modern (and a more serious) programming language like Java or, even better, Visual Basic, that lacks such archaic coding styles, one will also note a serious speed increase over C.
So what does this mean for the programming community? I think clearly that C needs to be abandonded. There are two candidates that would be a suitable replacement for it. Those are Java and Visual Basic.
Having programmed in both for many years, I believe that VB has the edge. Not only is it slightly faster than Java its also much easier to code in. I found C to be confusing, frightening and intimidating with its non-GUI-based coding style. Furthermore, I like to see the source code of the projects I work with. Java's source seems to be under the monopolistic thumb of Sun much the way that GCC is obscured from us by the marketing people at the FSF. Microsoft's "shared source" under which Visual Basic is released definately seems to be the most fair and reasonable of all the licenses in existance, with none of the harsh restrictions of the BSD license. It also lacks the GPLs requirement that anything coded with its tools becomes property of the FSF.
I hope to see a switch to VB very soon. I've already spoken with various luminaries in the *nix coding world and most are eager to begin to transition. Having just gotten off the phone with Mr. Alan Cox, I can say that he is quite thrilled with the speed increases that will occur when the Linux kernel is completely rewritten in Visual Basic. Richard Stallman plans to support this, and hopes that the great Swede himself, Linus Torvaldis, won't object to renaming Linux to VB/Linux. Although not a C coder himself, I'm told that Slashdot's very own Admiral Taco will support this on his web site.
Thank you for your time. Happy coding.
Egg Troll
Gentlemen, the time has come for a serious discussion on whether or not to continue using C for serious programming projects. As I will explain, I feel that C needs to be retired, much the same way that Fortran, Cobol and Perl have been. Furthermore, allow me to be so bold as to suggest a superior replacement to this outdated language.
To give you a little background on this subject, I was recently asked to develop a client/server project on a Unix platform for a Fortune 500 company. While I've never coded in C before I have coded in VB for fifteen years, and in Java for over ten, I was stunned to see how poorly C fared compared to these two, more low-level languages.
C's biggest difficulty, as we all know, is the fact that it is by far one of the slowest languages in existance, especially when compared to more modern languages such as Java. Although the reasons for this are varied, the main reasons seems to be the way C requires a programmer to laboriously work with chunks of memory.
Requiring a programmer to manipulate blocks of memory is a tedious way to program. This was satisfactory back in the early days of coding, but then again, so were punchcards. By using what are called "pointers" a C programmer is basically requiring the computer to do three sets of work rather than one. The first time requires the computer to duplicate whatever is stored in the memory space "pointed to" by the pointer. The second time requires it to perform the needed operation on this space. Finally the computer must delete the duplicate set and set the values of the original accordingly.
Clearly this is a horrendous use of resources and the chief reason why C is so slow. When one looks at a more modern (and a more serious) programming language like Java or, even better, Visual Basic, that lacks such archaic coding styles, one will also note a serious speed increase over C.
So what does this mean for the programming community? I think clearly that C needs to be abandonded. There are two candidates that would be a suitable replacement for it. Those are Java and Visual Basic.
Having programmed in both for many years, I believe that VB has the edge. Not only is it slightly faster than Java its also much easier to code in. I found C to be confusing, frightening and intimidating with its non-GUI-based coding style. Furthermore, I like to see the source code of the projects I work with. Java's source seems to be under the monopolistic thumb of Sun much the way that GCC is obscured from us by the marketing people at the FSF. Microsoft's "shared source" under which Visual Basic is released definately seems to be the most fair and reasonable of all the licenses in existance, with none of the harsh restrictions of the BSD license. It also lacks the GPLs requirement that anything coded with its tools becomes property of the FSF.
I hope to see a switch to VB very soon. I've already spoken with various luminaries in the *nix coding world and most are eager to begin to transition. Having just gotten off the phone with Mr. Alan Cox, I can say that he is quite thrilled with the speed increases that will occur when the Linux kernel is completely rewritten in Visual Basic. Richard Stallman plans to support this, and hopes that the great Swede himself, Linus Torvaldis, won't object to renaming Linux to VB/Linux. Although not a C coder himself, I'm told that Slashdot's very own Admiral Taco will support this on his web site.
Thank you for your time. Happy coding.
Egg Troll
As ugly as a hobgoblin? Fat? Love giving head? Then this is the word for you.
How do I remove a purplish-greenish moldlike infection that's spreading up my leg?
Don't worry. That's just Jon Katz. As soon as he's gratified himself on your leg, he'll move on.
You might find this link entertaining: http://www.log.dial.pipex.com/playground/html/news .htm
My favorite quote from these playground sayings:
andy graham disease
Can be contracted by passing within a few feet of Andy Graham, the poor kid, or by eating custard at school dinners. (Only Andy Graham would eat the stuff, and we assumed it was because he was so poor and didn't have food at home). The only cure was to be wrestled to the ground by a group of kids screaming "NURSE!" and pretending to spray you with aerosol. Sometimes, if the afflicted person was unpopular, nobody would attempt to cure them for fear of contamination themselves. Thus, sat at the back of the class with no mates, when the teacher asked what the matter was, the often tearful child would mutter "I've got the Andy Graham Disease sir". (Steve McDonald)
Ah the problem with posting as an AC.
OMFG! That is probably the funniest thing I've ever seen on Slashdot!!
The 5th child molester is too busy fucking up Slashdot to be bothered to install a GUI I believe.
Thanks. Actually my favorite troll name was Trollercoaster but someone a little more clever than myself had beaten me to it. :)
Yes, yes you are right. Slashdot is being run off a floppy disk I'm told. I'll watch what I say.
Ah, but just like Linux itself, KDE is under the GPL and thus a cancer, so it will continue to spread. :)
Actually I believe you meant to say that the GPL is not a cancer, but a virus.
I do nothing but bash that turd of an OS here on Slashdot. View my history, kind sir. Of course I post at -1 because I don't fall in line with the mindless Slashdot groupthink, but thats okay. Many before me were put down and abused by those who sought to preserve their status: Galileo, Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Paul Ruebens. So it goes with myself.
KDE will still be a hunk of shit while MS will have a solid, stable OS used on 99% of the desktops. Linux, on the other hand, will still be trying to get half the video cards on the market to support it. Haha! Linux sucks now and it'll suck five years from now, turd burglar! Haw! Haw! Haw!
KDE is nothing more than a sore upon the Open Source community. Its the GUI chosen by most child molesters, arsonist and Canadians. The Linux community needs to ban KDE from spreading. This GUI is so filthy I almost feel the need to vomit just from mentioning those three letters. Let smite this GUI before it changes its name to what it truly is, the NAMBLA GUI.
I need to go wash my hands now. Ugh.
I always pretended my "bad" Legos had cooties. If the "good" Legos approached the bad ones, they'd die of some horrible cootie disease that would swiftly spread to the rest of the good Legos.
I'll use these in future trolls.
...do the pirates board the sailboat and kidnap the girl. Thirteen years later she becomes their sexual slave, forced to do all manner of disgusting things to the pirates? Can you post that part of the story? I'm hard up for some wanking material lately (no pun intended.)
I dunno dude. Ass kinda smells like ass no matter who its from. But hey, I'm like Frank in Blue Velvet: "I'll fuck anything that moves." Either that or: "Baby wants to fuck! Baby wants to fuck Blue Velvet!"
Straight up, homeslice. But she won't be too bitchy in real life when Egg Troll has all of his lovetool plowing her ass like its Iowa farmland.
YHBT. YHL. HAND.
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Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
WTF?
With Claire Danes you don't need to build up immunities. She is free from the normal fecal bacteria that you and I have. The only thing that ever comes from her bung is pure honey, and my face is the toast upon which she may spread it.
34 Comments, 6 at +1 or greater!! Excellent work all around.