I worked there back in '99 developing some of the higher-lever applications software. All desktops were Windows NT, but we had 1 Sun machine because we also targetted Solaris.
This was the time when Big Lar was on the Java kick. We converted an MFC-based stand-alone Windows app to a Java Applet. It really made no sense other than to migrate away from the Microsoft MFC framework (the product was stable and sold well). The Java applet was a 30 meg bohemoth that took 8 months to stabilize.
The Windows machines won't disappear: the Oracle apps will still need to target Win32.
It's great news that all of the desktops are migrating, however. Great move by the Big E.
Still waiting for Java to support design by contract, though.
Maybe some day we'll even see value semantics (har har).
But, for now, Java is great for little applets running in a web browser...and maybe introducing little kiddes to software development. For large-scale software development, C++, C, or Eiffel are king.
Maybe if nasa got rid of the stinkin' liberal influence (quotas) and hired the best and the whitest, they wouldn't have shuttles blowing up and robots going haywire.
look at that control room during the apollo missions. look at it now. 'nuff said.
Doesn't it seem like today NASA really sucks ass compared to the 60s?
Shuttles blowing up. They can barely get a working robot to Mars.
What is their problem?
Is it a case where they use have to have the best people in the world, and now they have shit people?
Probably the quota system at work.
Are NASA's challenges much different today than they were 40 years ago?
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I worked there back in '99 developing some of the higher-lever applications software. All desktops were Windows NT, but we had 1 Sun machine because we also targetted Solaris.
This was the time when Big Lar was on the Java kick. We converted an MFC-based stand-alone Windows app to a Java Applet. It really made no sense other than to migrate away from the Microsoft MFC framework (the product was stable and sold well). The Java applet was a 30 meg bohemoth that took 8 months to stabilize.
The Windows machines won't disappear: the Oracle apps will still need to target Win32.
It's great news that all of the desktops are migrating, however. Great move by the Big E.
If successful, maybe others will follow....
Still waiting for Java to support design by contract, though.
Maybe some day we'll even see value semantics (har har).
But, for now, Java is great for little applets running in a web browser...and maybe introducing little kiddes to software development. For large-scale software development, C++, C, or Eiffel are king.
look at that control room during the apollo missions. look at it now. 'nuff said.
Doesn't it seem like today NASA really sucks ass compared to the 60s? Shuttles blowing up. They can barely get a working robot to Mars. What is their problem? Is it a case where they use have to have the best people in the world, and now they have shit people? Probably the quota system at work. Are NASA's challenges much different today than they were 40 years ago?
...it's the blacks using guns. get rid of blacks.