Another interesting fact about the survey (if you have good eyes, you can look it up here
): about 13.000 of the attacks analysed were conducted by Brasilian hacker groups. Makes me wonder how this correlates with the number of attacks on Linux systems (about 13.000)... and why the heck Brasilia is the source of more than 75% of the hacks surveyed.
That's the first thing I've done after installing Gnome 1.4 and I've just checked: it's still there. Evolution plainly ignores this setting. And to the moderators: this is in no way funny *g*
For those who are unfamilar with this language (I fear most of the/. crowd) here a basic overview of its advantages and problems:
Eiffel is a language with an minimal instruction set (sometimes refered to as RISC language), which is used mostly in environments that emphasize reliability and dependability. It's small instruction set (e.g. there is only one type of loop) make it easy to learn and understand but is taking away some of the fun of coding. Most of the work you put into an eiffel project is to find the right approache, because you don't have too many ways to implement stuff. Here in Europe it's used in mostly academic environments that like the grace of its simplistic approace and its 100% object oriented design.
Tradeoffs of this language are its high compilation time, as Eiffel source gets translated to C and then into a native form, the scarcity of available system libraries and the lack of dynamic features as shared objects and stuff.
If your going to invest some time in this language, a look at those open source projects might be worthwhile: eposix - POSIX bindings for eiffel gobo - a collection of tools and libraries to unify the development of applications on diffrent Eiffel compilers mico/e - a CORBA ORB in Eiffel (DISCLAIMER: I am involved in the development of this project)
You said, the OO paradigm really doesn't buy you anything, and you are tecnically correct (the best kind of correct), but it will buy much for the crowd that might be using your sources. At least if you design your system according to the OOD principles.
Whenever you use an OO Language (and your right again, you could argue wheater C++ is an OO language) without applying sane OO design principles you are doing something wrong. Just using an OO capable language doesn't make your code OO, and a badly designed OO system tends to confuse even more than a badly designed traditional one.
But try to imagine stuff like CORBA in an massivly distributet environment, an heterogenous choice of languages with an horde of developers without the OO partadigma....
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Another interesting fact about the survey (if you have good eyes, you can look it up here ):
about 13.000 of the attacks analysed were conducted by Brasilian hacker groups. Makes me wonder how this correlates with the number of attacks on Linux systems (about 13.000)... and why the heck Brasilia is the source of more than 75% of the hacks surveyed.
That's the first thing I've done after installing Gnome 1.4 and I've just checked: it's still there. Evolution plainly ignores this setting. And to the moderators: this is in no way funny *g*
As long as they don't give me my Emacs-style keybindings back, I don't care about no eyecandy!
Eiffel is a language with an minimal instruction set (sometimes refered to as RISC language), which is used mostly in environments that emphasize reliability and dependability. It's small instruction set (e.g. there is only one type of loop) make it easy to learn and understand but is taking away some of the fun of coding. Most of the work you put into an eiffel project is to find the right approache, because you don't have too many ways to implement stuff. Here in Europe it's used in mostly academic environments that like the grace of its simplistic approace and its 100% object oriented design.
Tradeoffs of this language are its high compilation time, as Eiffel source gets translated to C and then into a native form, the scarcity of available system libraries and the lack of dynamic features as shared objects and stuff.
If your going to invest some time in this language, a look at those open source projects might be worthwhile:
eposix - POSIX bindings for eiffel
gobo - a collection of tools and libraries to unify the development of applications on diffrent Eiffel compilers
mico/e - a CORBA ORB in Eiffel (DISCLAIMER: I am involved in the development of this project)
Actually you can: http://www.webfreetv.com/linux/
You said, the OO paradigm really doesn't buy you anything, and you are tecnically correct (the best kind of correct), but it will buy much for the crowd that might be using your sources. At least if you design your system according to the OOD principles.
Whenever you use an OO Language (and your right again, you could argue wheater C++ is an OO language) without applying sane OO design principles you are doing something wrong. Just using an OO capable language doesn't make your code OO, and a badly designed OO system tends to confuse even more than a badly designed traditional one.
But try to imagine stuff like CORBA in an massivly distributet environment, an heterogenous choice of languages with an horde of developers without the OO partadigma....