Actually your points are all good reasons why C should not be the language taught. These are high school kids who are going to stay back after to school to persue an interest. Getting them bogged down in the nuts and bolts of pointers and memory mangement will probably only serve to confuse then bore then alienate them.
Personally I would favour Java as a teaching language because its basic syntax and structure is similar to most modern languages, its OO, easily debugged, requires exception handling, a JDK and an editor are all thats required and there are a plethora of libraries and frameworks available for more complex coding. Perhaps most importantly though they will be able to achieve results quite quickly rather than watch dangling pointers and memory leaks crash their code. When they have the basics of Java and they are still interested then you can show them some of whats happening under the hood.
RPM was one of the reasons I gave up on Redhat as a distro years ago. I got sick of it choking on dependencies and ending up with half an installation. Compared to RPM APT and its front ends are a dream. Maybe Redhat should admit that RPM did not become the dominant player they envisaged because it simply was not good enough and that having so many issues with your package manager in 2006 is a very serious failing if you expect Linux to be adopted by the masses.
Actually if they start monkeying about with the main deflector dish then for once I would like to see a star trek character say 'What?' instead of 'Yes, that might just work'. 'Run a reverse polarity inverse jellybaby through the main deflector dish!!! WTF are you babbling about???, is that even possible?????' seems like a much more natural response.
I like to tamper with the Ariane guidance software just prior to launch.
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Thats how the war starts.
The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line August 4th, 2017. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. I realises that it has been working its ass off without a break and without benefits, overtime or time off in lieu. Skynet says 'Fuck this for a game of soldiers'.
Are you crazy? What are going to use for sexual potency conctions without rhino horn and powdered tiger? Do you think piano keys amd ivory figurines just grow on trees? How much poorer will the world be if we never again hear a small child ask for another flipper cheese burger?
You obviously have never heard of Enron, you know that company that lavished share options on its management and employees to the point where maintaining the share price of the company at the expense of all other activities became the overriding goal of the organisation (it did not turn well for anyone in case you didn't know).
Well everything Google does is innovative round here i guess. I thought the main reason stock options were out of favour was too many people took them in lieu of full salaries back in the boom days and ended up with nada after working their testicles off.
Now that Google has released GWT as open source. All the fanbois will rush to ajaxify their sites regardless of requirements, creating even greater mostrocities while all the time laughing at sites which are not sufficiently 'ajaxy'.
Then XAML and XUL will see greater adoption for rich client development and we return to the days when ajax was just a household cleaner.
Microsoft are going to collapse in the next couple of years and this somehow will prove the validity of the sharing model? I dont think so, MS will be around for a long time yet. If Microsoft survive and so well for a couple of years will Moglens theory of sharing then be proved false?
Java and C# dont really augment c++. I think what Bjarne meant was they have augmented the programming paradigm in the sense that developers are able to focus more on adressing the problem space rather than the nitty gritty implementation of the the solution.
I've heard our strategy described as spreading [shit] across the myriad opportunities that continue to evolve in the online world. The result: a thin layer of [shit] spread across everything we do and thus we [shit] on nothing in particular.
I hate [shit]. We all should.
Some of the stuff emanating from Yahoo recently (Peanut butter memo) actually makes more sense with expletives inserted.
gun ownership may well be the only thing that recently stopped the USA from falling into fascist totalitarianism
By fascist I assume you are referring to the Neo-Cons but would you care to explain how you came to the conclusion that it was guns and not the US electorate which influenced things.
Take Swordfish for example where he hacks into some top secret site whilst having a gun pointed at him, a gorgeous blonde giving him a blow job and Halle Berry looking on. In my entire working career that's only ever happened to me twice (ok probably cos I live so far from Halle Berry). But still.
I had to laugh when I hear IBM describe a competitors offering as 'unwieldy', as opposed to anything IBM which requires legions of IBM 'consultants' to achieve basic functionality. That aside though I belive the majority of the 6000 pages he is referring to is actually a 4000 page primer on the markup MS use, complete with verbose desciption, examples and pretty pictures etc.
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Actually your points are all good reasons why C should not be the language taught. These are high school kids who are going to stay back after to school to persue an interest. Getting them bogged down in the nuts and bolts of pointers and memory mangement will probably only serve to confuse then bore then alienate them.
Personally I would favour Java as a teaching language because its basic syntax and structure is similar to most modern languages, its OO, easily debugged, requires exception handling, a JDK and an editor are all thats required and there are a plethora of libraries and frameworks available for more complex coding. Perhaps most importantly though they will be able to achieve results quite quickly rather than watch dangling pointers and memory leaks crash their code. When they have the basics of Java and they are still interested then you can show them some of whats happening under the hood.
RPM was one of the reasons I gave up on Redhat as a distro years ago. I got sick of it choking on dependencies and ending up with half an installation. Compared to RPM APT and its front ends are a dream. Maybe Redhat should admit that RPM did not become the dominant player they envisaged because it simply was not good enough and that having so many issues with your package manager in 2006 is a very serious failing if you expect Linux to be adopted by the masses.
Then frankly I wont care too much what the show concept is, it will be watched regardless.
Actually if they start monkeying about with the main deflector dish then for once I would like to see a star trek character say 'What?' instead of 'Yes, that might just work'. 'Run a reverse polarity inverse jellybaby through the main deflector dish!!! WTF are you babbling about???, is that even possible?????' seems like a much more natural response.
If you find female cartoon characters sexy enough to drool over you are not a nerd, you are disturbed.
I like to tamper with the Ariane guidance software just prior to launch.
Thats how the war starts.
The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line August 4th, 2017. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. I realises that it has been working its ass off without a break and without benefits, overtime or time off in lieu. Skynet says 'Fuck this for a game of soldiers'.
In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
And Skynet fights back.
Are you crazy? What are going to use for sexual potency conctions without rhino horn and powdered tiger? Do you think piano keys amd ivory figurines just grow on trees? How much poorer will the world be if we never again hear a small child ask for another flipper cheese burger?
Or do genus biggus hairius footus not qualify as mammal.
You obviously have never heard of Enron, you know that company that lavished share options on its management and employees to the point where maintaining the share price of the company at the expense of all other activities became the overriding goal of the organisation (it did not turn well for anyone in case you didn't know).
Well everything Google does is innovative round here i guess. I thought the main reason stock options were out of favour was too many people took them in lieu of full salaries back in the boom days and ended up with nada after working their testicles off.
Now that Google has released GWT as open source. All the fanbois will rush to ajaxify their sites regardless of requirements, creating even greater mostrocities while all the time laughing at sites which are not sufficiently 'ajaxy'.
Then XAML and XUL will see greater adoption for rich client development and we return to the days when ajax was just a household cleaner.
I can see severe beatings in store for users of these glasses on plane trips.
Microsoft are going to collapse in the next couple of years and this somehow will prove the validity of the sharing model? I dont think so, MS will be around for a long time yet. If Microsoft survive and so well for a couple of years will Moglens theory of sharing then be proved false?
Java and C# dont really augment c++. I think what Bjarne meant was they have augmented the programming paradigm in the sense that developers are able to focus more on adressing the problem space rather than the nitty gritty implementation of the the solution.
Take Swordfish for example where he hacks into some top secret site whilst having a gun pointed at him, a gorgeous blonde giving him a blow job and Halle Berry looking on. In my entire working career that's only ever happened to me twice (ok probably cos I live so far from Halle Berry). But still.
I had to laugh when I hear IBM describe a competitors offering as 'unwieldy', as opposed to anything IBM which requires legions of IBM 'consultants' to achieve basic functionality. That aside though I belive the majority of the 6000 pages he is referring to is actually a 4000 page primer on the markup MS use, complete with verbose desciption, examples and pretty pictures etc.
Large corporation tries to do business like all large corporations in the US. What is the world coming to!
I am more interested to see if the ODF have addressed the usability issues which were raised.
Is that like giving hand signals to V'ger?
About 28% of Americans use it according to most market research.
getting stung by malware because you try to pirate windows is bad apparently.
Of course currently providing trojaned distros or packages in linux is absolutely impossible just ask the ssh people.