Why does this article make front page? More important things like the new release of Ruby (a minor version change) was only available in the developers section, but arguing over two perfectly fine orthograph of flavour/flavor somehow is more important?
Buying a CD nowadays is like buy a bag of apples in which all apples but one are rotten. And the one that's not is not terribly good too.
When every song on an album is worth listening to, I buy it, otherwise I use IRC to get the one good song. I don't feel bad about it, because instead of them ripping me off, I rip them off.
If I had points, I'd mod you "Insightful". It's true, C has not evolved much (except for libs) since the 70's. Time to move to the 21st century please.
I think you should check out this video. It's a part of a presentation Alan Kay gave at an O'Reilly conference. He demonstrates the power of Squeak with a simple example: he draws a car and steering wheel. Next, using only his mouse he makes the car go forward and turn accordingly to the heading of the wheel. Now, maybe not much advanced stuff can be done with eToys (I don't know, I write code myself in Squeak), but I think it's a road worth exploring. I mean, he just takes properties of the steering, drags them into a method of the car and it's all very easy and natural.
Anyway, check it out, maybe that's the beginning of something you dream of. Be sure to get a copy of Squeak to experiment too, it's a whole lot of fun (despite what some C/C++ people might say)
Quote bu xagon7:I think we need a language that not only performs those operations but is built with Cross-platform GUI design in mind. I don't know HOW or even it it is simply another part of the standard libraries, but I think you you REALLY want you rlanguage to be successful it should be able to hook into existing GUI APIs and/or implement its own with ease and consistancy. If anything a strong enphasis of a GUI library is a must have.
If you don't care too much for native GUI widgets, you can check out Squeak. It's very easy and very fun to build GUI's with Morphic and it's very well integrated
Lisp and Smalltalk are two VERY good languages at being very expressive. And both are old enough to have had enough research that they are now as fast as C++.
Quote from elflord: It is much slower, and unavoidably so. It's a very dynamic language, and this has consequences as far as performance is concerned.
Common Lisp is a very dynamic language, but compilers like CMUCL and SBCL produce programs whose performances match those of C and C++. See http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/ and see how well CMUCL performs.
Tell me, does the US truly want terrorism to be erradicated now that it can be a way to stir the economy? What if it turns out that this makes good money, are they going to encourage people to go kill innocent by-standers just so that economy in the US stays good?
I think the best practice of C programming is to use it only when absolutely necessary. Otherwise, use modern language which will boost your productivity and make your applications easier to write and with fewer bugs (and no presence on Bugtraq due to a buffer overflow)
I don't think there's anything wrong. The word 'courriel' has been part of the IT jargon in french-speaking Quebec for quite some time (and has been approved by the Larousse and Robert dictionaries). Other terms have been translated too:
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ): Foire Aux Questions
Chat: Clavardage (a nice mix of 'clavier' (keyboard) and 'bavardage' (chat))
Nothing wrong with wanting french terms for french people.
I keep hoping that C++'s use will shrink and that the language will be replaced by a more dynamic language for user applications (Smalltalk, Lisp, Python, etc.) It seems that a new standard might renew some people's desire to write static applications, which might now be a good thing.
I recently started messing with Squeak and I think that it is the kind of thing programming language should try to mimic: an easy to use, very dynamic environment. Let's take computing to a new level, leave the 90s behind please.
I can never seem to understand people who are obsessed with nudity in movies. Nudity is harmless, violence is not. Yet, there are more parents who will forbid their children to watch movies with nudity (even if it's a 3 second ass-crack shot) than there are parents who will forbid their children to watch violent movies.
I have a 11 years old brother. Our mother wouldn't let him watch movies like "American Pie" or "Not Another Teen Movie" because of some nudity. But so what if there's nudity?! I also remember than they once showed a movie (can't recall what it was) in his 4th grade class, and it had this love scene where you did not see a breast, nothing, but parents were outraged that this was shown to the children. But the parents never raved when children watched Die Hard. I mean, do these people figure that in real life clothes are a indissociable part of one's body? Yet, our mother didn't oppose when my brother watched movies like "Saving Private Ryan", "The Pianist", and other movies with some really bad violence scenes. She does not oppose to his playing Counter Strike, but she thought The Sims were not appropriate because people went to the bathroom sometimes!
What is the harm done by nudity exactly? I know that because of his intensive Counter Striking, my brother has some violent behaviors, but I don't think that nudity seen in movies would encourage him to walk around naked. Parents want a better world for their children? Stop obsessing on nudity and start bitching real hard about violence.
What exactly does it give? I mean, you can buy computers that cost about the same price than a XBox. So what's the big deal, why do people want a Linux-enabled XBox?
Artists, start recording songs that do not suck. If you make an album and two songs out of 16 are good, people are not willing to pay for the 14 others.
So either accept the $0.99 deal or deal with being pirated because people think your songs suck.
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Why does this article make front page? More important things like the new release of Ruby (a minor version change) was only available in the developers section, but arguing over two perfectly fine orthograph of flavour/flavor somehow is more important?
An article by Paul Graham, and he doesn't mention the word Lisp even once? Must not be a terribly good one :)
When every song on an album is worth listening to, I buy it, otherwise I use IRC to get the one good song. I don't feel bad about it, because instead of them ripping me off, I rip them off.
Here's a python script I think we all should run
:)
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import smtplib
s = smtplib.SMTP("an.open.relay", 25)
for i in xrange(699):
s.sendmail("angry.slashdotter@slashdot.org", "sales@sco.com", "1$")
s.close()
##
So, let's all run this at the same time now, shall we?
If I had points, I'd mod you "Insightful". It's true, C has not evolved much (except for libs) since the 70's. Time to move to the 21st century please.
Anyway, check it out, maybe that's the beginning of something you dream of. Be sure to get a copy of Squeak to experiment too, it's a whole lot of fun (despite what some C/C++ people might say)
If you don't care too much for native GUI widgets, you can check out Squeak. It's very easy and very fun to build GUI's with Morphic and it's very well integrated
You do realize Ruby is open-source? Let that someone be you maybe?
Lisp and Smalltalk are two VERY good languages at being very expressive. And both are old enough to have had enough research that they are now as fast as C++.
It is much slower, and unavoidably so. It's a very dynamic language, and this has consequences as far as performance is concerned.
Common Lisp is a very dynamic language, but compilers like CMUCL and SBCL produce programs whose performances match those of C and C++. See http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/ and see how well CMUCL performs.
Only if your reputation would be totally destroyed if your genitals were exposed
Tell me, does the US truly want terrorism to be erradicated now that it can be a way to stir the economy? What if it turns out that this makes good money, are they going to encourage people to go kill innocent by-standers just so that economy in the US stays good?
I think the best practice of C programming is to use it only when absolutely necessary. Otherwise, use modern language which will boost your productivity and make your applications easier to write and with fewer bugs (and no presence on Bugtraq due to a buffer overflow)
De quossé are you talking about toé? Franglais? Ya no one in Quebec qui speak de même!
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ): Foire Aux Questions
Chat: Clavardage (a nice mix of 'clavier' (keyboard) and 'bavardage' (chat))
Nothing wrong with wanting french terms for french people.
Why not K++0x? ;)
Whoops, s/now/not. Sorry about that!
I recently started messing with Squeak and I think that it is the kind of thing programming language should try to mimic: an easy to use, very dynamic environment. Let's take computing to a new level, leave the 90s behind please.
I have a 11 years old brother. Our mother wouldn't let him watch movies like "American Pie" or "Not Another Teen Movie" because of some nudity. But so what if there's nudity?! I also remember than they once showed a movie (can't recall what it was) in his 4th grade class, and it had this love scene where you did not see a breast, nothing, but parents were outraged that this was shown to the children. But the parents never raved when children watched Die Hard. I mean, do these people figure that in real life clothes are a indissociable part of one's body? Yet, our mother didn't oppose when my brother watched movies like "Saving Private Ryan", "The Pianist", and other movies with some really bad violence scenes. She does not oppose to his playing Counter Strike, but she thought The Sims were not appropriate because people went to the bathroom sometimes!
What is the harm done by nudity exactly? I know that because of his intensive Counter Striking, my brother has some violent behaviors, but I don't think that nudity seen in movies would encourage him to walk around naked. Parents want a better world for their children? Stop obsessing on nudity and start bitching real hard about violence.
What exactly does it give? I mean, you can buy computers that cost about the same price than a XBox. So what's the big deal, why do people want a Linux-enabled XBox?
Better traduction would be:
Vachier criss!
Si tu penses que tu peux avoir un brevet pour la traduction de la messagerie instantanée, t'es encore plus cave que je pensais!
Vachier criss de fourreur!
I hope Microsoft programmer won't just translate everything a french-speaking person says to "I surrender".
Apple has had a 17" PowerBook for some time now. And it weighs only 6.8 lbs
So either accept the $0.99 deal or deal with being pirated because people think your songs suck.
From your spelling of "a lot", it seems that you either spend too much time on IRC or that you like Forth.