Oh yeah, it's sooo much better when your tax dollars are used to try to take control of a south american country or to bomb remote location around the globe.
Were the US refunded when the coup against Chavez failed?
And where they when the bomb falled on helpless villagers?
Get informed, your taxes dollars are much more mispent elsewhere than on a simple videogame that you can't get to work.
will Larry personally convert all my existing code so it will work under Perl 6?
Yes! Well, almost: a p5 to p6 converter will be available. It's really at the base of perl6 of having an automatic converter for perl5 scripts.
Also, with the perl6 interpreter you will be able to add a "use perl5;" pragma, so you'll only have to add a line to your scripts if you don't want them automatically converted.
I haven't been clear on that, my point was somewhat related to the class of language I use/like more (Lisp languages): it's hard sometimes to tell what's expensive in a Lisp program, and the compiler can only do as much with such a language. In those case a profiler is invaluable.
Maybe the problems with today's profiler is that the compiler implementors spend too much time making a compiler that is going to try to optimize everything by itself, which then might not even get the best code in that case.
What could be more useful is if the compiler implementor would spend as much time on the profiler than on the compiler: you would then be able to easily see faulty parts in your software and be able to determine what needs to be optimized.
Good profilers would means efficient code. Don't think profilers are useless because most implementations of them sucks.
And why would this be a good thing?
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DirectX has already won. OpenGL is dead.
Why people can't just agree that it's a nice, easy standard, very powerful, flexible and open?
oops, excuse me for a while, I think I forgot to take my medication today.
Ok, it's just that for me 'NOT' has the meaning of boolean negation, so I was expecting some sort of explicit conversion from '0' to 'false' and then the negation of 'false' to be 'true'.
And about the 'timer()' thingy to seed the rand, my problem was that time returns the number of milliseconds since midnight, so it means that at the same time each day you always have the same seed (admitedly, there is little chance trouble could be caused by that in a simple application).
Some weird VBScript bugs
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this is fucked up:
if 0 then... --> false if not 0 then... --> true if 1 then... --> true if not 1 then... --> still true...
wtf?
Also, this kinda puzzled me:
randomize(now())
gives a constant 'random' seed. Don't do crypto in VB.
Ok, while I agree that Perl is easy to learn, one should be carefull to call himself a programmer afther reading one of these book.
Obviously, if you get down to programming CGI in one day, how can you know all the pitfalls you will have to avoid in order to make your CGI secure?
So many scripts are flawed or even dangerous. Just look at the (popular) pile of crap that is Matt's Script Archive. Those CGI aren't even programmed with CGI.pm, they are badly designed, and aimed at non-programmers that will install them on their servers, not knowing much more than they have to make the script executable so it will run.
Programming CGIs should always be done with great care, and is a task best left in the hands of professionals.
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>> The free world is at stake! Join up at your NET Guard recruiting office now!
.NET Guard recruiting office? (notice the clever dot)
Wouldn't that be your
Were the US refunded when the coup against Chavez failed?
And where they when the bomb falled on helpless villagers?
Get informed, your taxes dollars are much more mispent elsewhere than on a simple videogame that you can't get to work.
Yes!
Well, almost: a p5 to p6 converter will be available. It's really at the base of perl6 of having an automatic converter for perl5 scripts.
Also, with the perl6 interpreter you will be able to add a "use perl5;" pragma, so you'll only have to add a line to your scripts if you don't want them automatically converted.
I haven't been clear on that, my point was somewhat related to the class of language I use/like more (Lisp languages): it's hard sometimes to tell what's expensive in a Lisp program, and the compiler can only do as much with such a language. In those case a profiler is invaluable.
What could be more useful is if the compiler implementor would spend as much time on the profiler than on the compiler: you would then be able to easily see faulty parts in your software and be able to determine what needs to be optimized.
Good profilers would means efficient code. Don't think profilers are useless because most implementations of them sucks.
Why people can't just agree that it's a nice, easy standard, very powerful, flexible and open?
oops, excuse me for a while, I think I forgot to take my medication today.
And about the 'timer()' thingy to seed the rand, my problem was that time returns the number of milliseconds since midnight, so it means that at the same time each day you always have the same seed (admitedly, there is little chance trouble could be caused by that in a simple application).
wtf?
Also, this kinda puzzled me:
gives a constant 'random' seed. Don't do crypto in VB.It's pretty common in programming languages, and not a crack-headed design as you might think.
Examples in C:
"Lisp doesn't look any deader than usual to me."
-- David Thornley
Is it Slackware's browser, like Konqueror for KDE? And is there any other way I could use it, even if I use only RedHat (it's Linux too)?
Yeah, maybe somewhat, but a least the hood isn't welded shut.
It isn't a problem, anyone idiot enough to try it will probably keep himself from breeding, thereby respecting Darwin principles.
Sorry, but there's not a single line of C++ in the BeOS kernel. Their motto was always: "No C++ in kernel code".
Well, that's too bad. Did you notice they went bankrupt too?
Maybe they should have. Or maybe not, since C++ isn't such a radical change from C, you still get the sticky stuff while only adding hairy stuff...
The article claim "cross platform compatibility" on Windows, Linux, Mac and the XBox.
Ok, while I agree that Perl is easy to learn, one should be carefull to call himself a programmer afther reading one of these book.
Obviously, if you get down to programming CGI in one day, how can you know all the pitfalls you will have to avoid in order to make your CGI secure?
So many scripts are flawed or even dangerous. Just look at the (popular) pile of crap that is Matt's Script Archive. Those CGI aren't even programmed with CGI.pm, they are badly designed, and aimed at non-programmers that will install them on their servers, not knowing much more than they have to make the script executable so it will run.
Programming CGIs should always be done with great care, and is a task best left in the hands of professionals.
Too bad some moderators are stupid and mod up false post as 'informative'.
I have a Palm 3XE, can I upgrade my OS? And if so, is there any benefits in doing it, or would it only slow down my pda?
Yeah, that's is so nice. As soon as you compile something, it becomes safe.
Damn, I wish all OS would be compiled from a source, then we would all be safe.
That would explain too why evolution takes millions of year... though it would explain too why it simply works.
IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation
Communist software with fascist hardware?
How long before they get to sell an alzheimer-suffering ex-president on EBay?
Why I love spam
Damn, I think I'd punch that guy in the face.
# lynx --dump http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-2.95.3/gcc_21.ht ml#SEC256 | sed -e 's/Linux/FreeBSD/'
There you have your link...
A Lisp OS?
;-)
Don't we have Emacs already?