You also failed to list the many other things that software developers do, including clarifying requirements, mentoring other developers, design and code reviews, generating test code, etc, etc.
Mechanical measurements do not really provide much value, just as trying to have everyone document all of their procedures ala ISO 9001 does not make good engineers replacable.
If you did that, then the Linux people and the M@cr&soft people would be throwing grenades at each other. It's not religion that's the problem; we need to ban people.
The only practical implication is if the defense contractor wanted to sell the weapons system to other countries, but not give them the source.
Of course, the military has a lot of firepower, and Stallman doesn't have any, so it is probably a moot point.
I saw an ad for a gatling rubber band gun at least 7 years ago, but it had the same problem. It would take at least 45 minutes to load it. That kind of takes the fun out of it.
There is too much elitism and sexism and racism!!!
I for one would like to see Slashdot pay to have Jon Katz receive his sex-change operation. Then, he can give the womans point of view.
Also, I think that we should have people of average or below average intelligence build our software everywhere , and not just at M@crosoft. That would show those elitist guys!!! They have a lot of nerve, studying and working hard and stuff. They are very bad.
Also, we should remove cpus from computers, so they can be easy to use like televisions.
I read the white paper by the designers of this chip; it sounded like these guys really knew what they were doing. We are a Solaris shop, but will probably write a program to generate random numbers using the Intel chip, and read that over a socket. You could also write the random numbers to CD-ROM.
You could use a one-time pad for encryption/decryption, but not for digital signatures, which is probably more important, because the useful lifetime of a digital signature is much longer than that of an encrypted piece of information sent over the net.
Of course marketing types will always write articles like this, and the definition of "using" a language is dependent on how many tools you buy.
There are lots of people out there maintaining COBOL and Fortran.
There are lots of C programmers using vi who don't show up in marketing research reports because they aren't buying the latest tools, and are just busy writing code.
There are lots of people working in C++, because while Java provides a lot of nice features, power is nice too, and it is easy getting used to templates, operator overloading, inline methods, etc, etc, etc.
Java is nice (it is what I have used for the last few years), and is a good general purpose programming language, after you get over not having destructors, etc, etc, etc.
There are lots of oddballs out there using Objective C, Smalltalk, Lisp, Prolog, etc, etc, etc. My first professional programming job involved using Commodore 64 BASIC. It was perfect for our application, and at $120 a shot, it was by far the cheapest solution.
There will always be a diversity of programming languages, especially with middleware like CORBA and XML to allow old code to communicate with newer code.
When I graduated and was looking for my first job, the primary concern of employers was my work experience. They didn't even count my part-time job programming at the University.
Working on an open source project would probably allow the graduate to get a lot of useful nuts and bolts experience, but that is not something that they could put on a resume that anyone would care about (unless they were going to work at Red Hat).
I don't like M#cr@s*ft more than anyone else, but the article seemed quite reasonable. HTTP is not ideally suited for RPC. SOAP does not require HTTP, it just started out that way because it was easy to do. Noone is saying that HTTP shouldn't be used for web sites. As far as SOAP goes, what is wrong with good old-fashioned sockets? Both parties can be servers (and clients) and everyone is happy.
I worked on a project recently that was code named CF, where C stood for cluster. We weren't even using Windows machines. This whole topic sounds like a troll to me.
I tried buying a Dell Linux machine back in the days when they supposedly supported it. You could only get it on a few models, you were not given the option on their website, and they did not set up machines for dual boot. It wasn't much of a surprise that they didn't sell that many of them.
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I found the article at arstechnica to be fairly biased..net is considered to be more generic than Java because it is language neutral. It seems to me that OS neutrality is the more important feature.
Also, the article talked about.net using various open standards. They could have used the CORBA IDL for language independent definitions. Certainly the fact that it only runs on M#cros@ft systems indicates their intentions fairly clearly. I thought that the fact that they are helping with a FreeBSD port was interesting. Is this an attempt to hurt Linux?
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Actually, according to the article, it is by a company called Developer VKB, not Siemens.
Mechanical measurements do not really provide much value, just as trying to have everyone document all of their procedures ala ISO 9001 does not make good engineers replacable.
If you did that, then the Linux people and the M@cr&soft people would be throwing grenades at each other. It's not religion that's the problem; we need to ban people.
The only practical implication is if the defense contractor wanted to sell the weapons system to other countries, but not give them the source.
Of course, the military has a lot of firepower, and Stallman doesn't have any, so it is probably a moot point.
I saw an ad for a gatling rubber band gun at least 7 years ago, but it had the same problem. It would take at least 45 minutes to load it. That kind of takes the fun out of it.
If you have a sound card, it swears at you.
Also, I think that we should have people of average or below average intelligence build our software everywhere , and not just at M@crosoft. That would show those elitist guys!!! They have a lot of nerve, studying and working hard and stuff. They are very bad.
Also, we should remove cpus from computers, so they can be easy to use like televisions.
Can we sue this reckless association ??? :-)
I read the white paper by the designers of this chip; it sounded like these guys really knew what they were doing. We are a Solaris shop, but will probably write a program to generate random numbers using the Intel chip, and read that over a socket. You could also write the random numbers to CD-ROM.
I wonder if bathroom cleaners will come with fusion bubbles!!!
I am very happy with Konqueror, now that I don't run it anymore.
This is the first actually funny post that I have seen on /. in quite some time. How is it modd'ed to 0?
The biggest problem with quantum computers is pressing the little tiny keys.
You could use a one-time pad for encryption/decryption, but not for digital signatures, which is probably more important, because the useful lifetime of a digital signature is much longer than that of an encrypted piece of information sent over the net.
Of course marketing types will always write articles like this, and the definition of "using" a language is dependent on how many tools you buy.
There are lots of people out there maintaining COBOL and Fortran.
There are lots of C programmers using vi who don't show up in marketing research reports because they aren't buying the latest tools, and are just busy writing code.
There are lots of people working in C++, because while Java provides a lot of nice features, power is nice too, and it is easy getting used to templates, operator overloading, inline methods, etc, etc, etc.
Java is nice (it is what I have used for the last few years), and is a good general purpose programming language, after you get over not having destructors, etc, etc, etc.
There are lots of oddballs out there using Objective C, Smalltalk, Lisp, Prolog, etc, etc, etc. My first professional programming job involved using Commodore 64 BASIC. It was perfect for our application, and at $120 a shot, it was by far the cheapest solution.
There will always be a diversity of programming languages, especially with middleware like CORBA and XML to allow old code to communicate with newer code.
When I graduated and was looking for my first job, the primary concern of employers was my work experience. They didn't even count my part-time job programming at the University.
Working on an open source project would probably allow the graduate to get a lot of useful nuts and bolts experience, but that is not something that they could put on a resume that anyone would care about (unless they were going to work at Red Hat).
I don't like M#cr@s*ft more than anyone else, but the article seemed quite reasonable. HTTP is not ideally suited for RPC. SOAP does not require HTTP, it just started out that way because it was easy to do. Noone is saying that HTTP shouldn't be used for web sites. As far as SOAP goes, what is wrong with good old-fashioned sockets? Both parties can be servers (and clients) and everyone is happy.
I worked on a project recently that was code named CF, where C stood for cluster. We weren't even using Windows machines. This whole topic sounds like a troll to me.
The url for babelfish is actually:
http://babelfish.altavista.com, not http://babelfish.altavista.net as reported.
I am unaware of any features in Linux that try to lock out other companies such as M#cr@s*ft. That of course is the difference.
The single employee has to be a lawyer, otherwise how could they file the lawsuit?
I tried buying a Dell Linux machine back in the days when they supposedly supported it. You could only get it on a few models, you were not given the option on their website, and they did not set up machines for dual boot. It wasn't much of a surprise that they didn't sell that many of them.
I found the article at arstechnica to be fairly biased. .net is considered to be more generic than Java because it is language neutral. It seems to me that OS neutrality is the more important feature.
.net using various open standards. They could have used the CORBA IDL for language independent definitions. Certainly the fact that it only runs on M#cros@ft systems indicates their intentions fairly clearly. I thought that the fact that they are helping with a FreeBSD port was interesting. Is this an attempt to hurt Linux?
Also, the article talked about
You aren't supposed to eat the paper (or the film).