Maybe it's good for any country to keep in mind that depending on a foreign company for their software may be a bad idea.
I feel any country or group of countries (EU?) would do a smart thing if they started to develop their own application software and OSes (this could go even further to running their own Certificate authorities).
Just to make sure there is no foreign entity (no matter from which country) that can "pull the plug" on them.
I feel with you...
The college I attended I was shocked to see them replace Pascal by C++ and now Java because they are more "modern".
A good programming language is good at what it's meant for, and learning it teaches you more than how to use the language as a tool, it teaches you about programming in general.
Fortran is good at what it was made to do and more.
So is Pascal.
Learning either of those will teach you about programming.
Learning C++ or Java as a first language is a big mistake, these languages are very powerfull once you understand programming, which you don't nessecarilly learn from C++ ot Java (just like you don't necesarilly learn that from Pascal or Fortran, but you stand a much better chance).
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Maybe it's good for any country to keep in mind that depending on a foreign company for their software may be a bad idea.
I feel any country or group of countries (EU?) would do a smart thing if they started to develop their own application software and OSes (this could go even further to running their own Certificate authorities).
Just to make sure there is no foreign entity (no matter from which country) that can "pull the plug" on them.
I started using Slackware very early on, tried many other distro's alwais came back.
;-)
Many Linux enthousiasts around me told me to move to a "modern" or "better" distro, I never did, eventhough I did look around.
Looking at the posts here, I'm really happy that there are so many happy Slackers with me
It really is a nice distro, and I still would recommend it to anyone who wants to learn about Linux.
I feel with you... The college I attended I was shocked to see them replace Pascal by C++ and now Java because they are more "modern". A good programming language is good at what it's meant for, and learning it teaches you more than how to use the language as a tool, it teaches you about programming in general. Fortran is good at what it was made to do and more. So is Pascal. Learning either of those will teach you about programming. Learning C++ or Java as a first language is a big mistake, these languages are very powerfull once you understand programming, which you don't nessecarilly learn from C++ ot Java (just like you don't necesarilly learn that from Pascal or Fortran, but you stand a much better chance).