The original Professor X built the danger room, probably together with Beast. In the reboot of the series in the 70's, indeed Shi'ar technology was added. One other invention of him is Cerebro. However, since Professor X mostly uses his mental capacities, he really does not have that much engineering feats.
While I also disagree with the tone of the parent, I hope you understand that abstraction and code reuse are not features that originate solely from OO programming? It is enough to have a module or package mechanism.
So you don't think that nuclear reactions and chemistry amount to some kind of calculation, e.g. adding protons is incrementing, letting orbitals connect together is not also a kind of addition?
To me, C++ has a lot going for it: it's pretty much as fast as C, and much more clear with powerful language constructs. I'm not much of an expert on other languages (I'm mostly a depth-first learner), but I've yet to see another language have something as powerful as templates/generics (besides Ada, which is where C++ got them from). The fact that you can do compile-time programming speaks volumes for the power of templates.
All the Lisps have compile-time programming, and you do not need to learn another language, and D has the same feature, also in D.
You should first learn Lisp using 'How to Design Programs', 'Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs'. Then you will see that object-oriented programming is just a special case of imperative programming. Proper structure can be achieved by architectural decomposition, for which you only need a packaging or namespace system. Functions are more important and powerful than datastructures. You can implement data structures using functions, but not the other way around.
For a growing complexity in a certain problem domain, the border between configuration and the creation of a domain specific language becomes rather thin.
Yeah, well, IBM already does this since about the end of the '70s, I think, with their line of minicomputers (currently called i Series I think), mapping indeed everything into a 128-bit address space.
Feature branches and isolation of production and development code : branch a repository and work on it in isolation, then merge it later back in the mainline. I use it for myself in that way. There are things that sometimes need to be done fast, while in parallel I also need to be able to implement larger changes.
My wife also has a MacBook. Not needing to support her with all the crap of the Windows platform is equally priceless. It doesn't have anything to do with fashion for her or for me (I am a hardcore Linux user).
I bought my ZX Spectrum in 1984, it cost me about (then) $500, I think. I did not buy a cassette recorder with it. In fact, being from Ostend, Belgium, and my father working on the ferries the, I went for free to Canterbury, bought my Spectrum at a much lower price there then where I lived.
Afterwards we went to local stores shopping for a cassette recorder and found one (brand new) for $20.
I just finished reading A History of England. If there is really anything which stands out in its history, it is the fact that English rule did not really have much power until the 19th century.
There was for cebnturies rivalry between England and France, but Louis XIV basically created the France that we know now.
Napoleon gave most other European nations enough to think about. I think they more won the war finally due to attrition than anything else.
I think it is only since the Franco-German war of 1870 that France got this reputation.
But look at the first world war. France did not run. They had some difficulties, but ultimately (with the help of the English and the resistance of Belgium at the Yzer) stopped the German troops before they reached Paris.
Look at their record at Verdun, they did not run, they made huge sacrifices.
And the second world war ? Leadership in all the allied nations had not taken into account the advances in battlefield technology, and it was Belgium, England and France that where on the run.
I went this weekend to the Struise Brouwers in Vleteren. What I tasted there has not been made or tasted by many. A variety of Black Albert, a stout ripened in oaken whiskey caskets, and Pannepot Wild, a beer variety enhanced with gueuze yeasts.
Yeah, I know, off-topic, but worth mentioning I think.
B.t.w. I see that Wisconsin produces about 600 varieties of cheese, but what varieties ? Do they have the same amount of variety that exists across Europe ? Fresh cheeses, soft cheeses, half-hard cheeses, hard cheeses, runny cheeses, chewy cheeses (like halloumi), big wheels of cheese, small pungent cheeses (I am from Belgium b.t.w.)?
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The original Professor X built the danger room, probably together with Beast. In the reboot of the series in the 70's, indeed Shi'ar technology was added. One other invention of him is Cerebro. However, since Professor X mostly uses his mental capacities, he really does not have that much engineering feats.
While I also disagree with the tone of the parent, I hope you understand that abstraction and code reuse are not features that originate solely from OO programming? It is enough to have a module or package mechanism.
So you don't think that nuclear reactions and chemistry amount to some kind of calculation, e.g. adding protons is incrementing, letting orbitals connect together is not also a kind of addition?
That is why I bought her a Mac. I use Linux only.
To me, C++ has a lot going for it: it's pretty much as fast as C, and much more clear with powerful language constructs. I'm not much of an expert on other languages (I'm mostly a depth-first learner), but I've yet to see another language have something as powerful as templates/generics (besides Ada, which is where C++ got them from). The fact that you can do compile-time programming speaks volumes for the power of templates.
All the Lisps have compile-time programming, and you do not need to learn another language, and D has the same feature, also in D.
Xah Lee, is that you?
You should first learn Lisp using 'How to Design Programs', 'Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs'. Then you will see that object-oriented programming is just a special case of imperative programming. Proper structure can be achieved by architectural decomposition, for which you only need a packaging or namespace system. Functions are more important and powerful than datastructures. You can implement data structures using functions, but not the other way around.
You are talking about IBM here. It will get built and sold/leased.
For a growing complexity in a certain problem domain, the border between configuration and the creation of a domain specific language becomes rather thin.
This goes even more for Microsoft.
Yeah, well, IBM already does this since about the end of the '70s, I think, with their line of minicomputers (currently called i Series I think), mapping indeed everything into a 128-bit address space.
Feature branches and isolation of production and development code : branch a repository and work on it in isolation, then merge it later back in the mainline. I use it for myself in that way. There are things that sometimes need to be done fast, while in parallel I also need to be able to implement larger changes.
What, no references to gnomes?
Elektromechanics.
I definitely remember this quote from the beginning of the eighties in the Dutch version of the magazine Elektor/Elektuur.
No electronic hobbyists here who have old archives?
My wife also has a MacBook. Not needing to support her with all the crap of the Windows platform is equally priceless. It doesn't have anything to do with fashion for her or for me (I am a hardcore Linux user).
I bought my ZX Spectrum in 1984, it cost me about (then) $500, I think. I did not buy a cassette recorder with it. In fact, being from Ostend, Belgium, and my father working on the ferries the, I went for free to Canterbury, bought my Spectrum at a much lower price there then where I lived.
Afterwards we went to local stores shopping for a cassette recorder and found one (brand new) for $20.
I think that in every dispute about patents, a reference to 'The Iron Standard' from Henry Kuttner should be included.
I just finished reading A History of England. If there is really anything which stands out in its history, it is the fact that English rule did not really have much power until the 19th century.
Yes, this surely deserves a patent!
Quite puzzled...
Chlodovech (or Clovis)
Charles Martel
Charlemagne
There was for cebnturies rivalry between England and France, but Louis XIV basically created the France that we know now.
Napoleon gave most other European nations enough to think about. I think they more won the war finally due to attrition than anything else.
I think it is only since the Franco-German war of 1870 that France got this reputation.
But look at the first world war. France did not run. They had some difficulties, but ultimately (with the help of the English and the resistance of Belgium at the Yzer) stopped the German troops before they reached Paris.
Look at their record at Verdun, they did not run, they made huge sacrifices.
And the second world war ? Leadership in all the allied nations had not taken into account the advances in battlefield technology, and it was Belgium, England and France that where on the run.
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I went this weekend to the Struise Brouwers in Vleteren. What I tasted there has not been made or tasted by many. A variety of Black Albert, a stout ripened in oaken whiskey caskets, and Pannepot Wild, a beer variety enhanced with gueuze yeasts.
Yeah, I know, off-topic, but worth mentioning I think.
B.t.w. I see that Wisconsin produces about 600 varieties of cheese, but what varieties ? Do they have the same amount of variety that exists across Europe ? Fresh cheeses, soft cheeses, half-hard cheeses, hard cheeses, runny cheeses, chewy cheeses (like halloumi), big wheels of cheese, small pungent cheeses (I am from Belgium b.t.w.)?