Could a signal be embedded in the trailers at the beginning of a movie that would automatically turn off all the pagers, beepers, and cellphones in the audience?
Write the compute-intensive numeric routines in
C++. Then use a scripting language (Tcl/Tk, Python, Perl) to glue the pieces together into a application.
Contrary to what you may have heard, it is possible
(and not very difficult) to combine Script code
with C++ into a single standalone executable that
is easy to deploy.
Advantages:
Using C++ for compute-intensive operations makes it go fast.
Using a scripting language for the framework makes it easy to program
The scripting language can also serve as a
portability layer.
If you choose Tcl as the scripting language, then you can use Tk to write impressive GUIs.
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Could a signal be embedded in the trailers at the beginning of a movie that would automatically turn off all the pagers, beepers, and cellphones in the audience?
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