If you knew enough to solve this problem you wouldn't have this problem. Since you don't any attempt is just going to give you more new problems you are unable to resolve until you find yourself clad in latex and wearing a ball gag. Give it up.
Unfortunately I can't help you learn this. Once you have adopted the thesis this far no argument from me will satisfy you. You will have to find the exit on your own, or experience the natural consequences and gain your experience the hard way. That's OK: I've been stubborn and learned things the hard way too.
C doesn't have safety belts and airbags, that's your complaint? They gave you the framework to create those things if you need them. If you can't be bothered to check your work and your inputs, to consider pathological cases and data, no linguistic tool is going to make your work stable and secure.
Languages are syntactic sugar. When you have implemented the basic stacks of OO, heap, stack, garbage collection, array transforms, list and set processing, the dually-linked-list-dancing-btree-with-bucket-hash, the things that other languages give as algorithms in C then you know you can implement them as C libraries properly once and be done with them. Things like inheritance, soft-typing and operator overloading are a distraction and a menace to predictability, readability and debugging. When you encounter a new problem with no lib you can just write an algorithm that can transform the datastructure in the desired way, make it a lib and call it. The usages of the various languages add nothing but orientation hurdles to get the C programmer into the language developer's state of mind. The states of mind of language developers can be sometimes interesting, but sometimes they are mad. This is not high art. This is fingerpainting. There is a guy here on/. (not me) who designs sorting algorithms that dynamically optimize on processor cache size, in 1KB of code and competes with the world's best. There is another who designed a procedurally generated FPS with unlimited terrain in 4KB. THAT is high art. Once you have mastered the use of your programming tools, you can begin to explore what art can be made with them.
Admittedly some languages have some rapid development potentials and usages where the programmer need not know his programming art, but that is "tools for fools", not real work. Even at their most obtuse, these are almost always implemented in C. Windows is almost entirely C, as is Linux, BSD, of course Unix, every game engine and of course all of the libraries and drivers. It is all C. Even the C++ compilers are more than 90% C.
Other languages, like LOGO, are for children who can't be bothered to learn their Wirth before they make the turtle draw.
You could try running your economy on something other than fines levied on multinational corporations. How about you pay your own taxes like the rest of us do?
The EU economy is now pretty much run on fines levied to multinational corporations. As long as they don't tax any one too hard or often they're going to get away with it.
Languages need to keep up with the times, or they become an albatross.
Unless through being steeped in the art and basic principles and with an eye toward the future the authors built their language in such a way that it could be timeless art that stood for all time, like for example Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie's "C".
Go ahead and learn ALGOL, FORTRAN, BASIC, SNOBOL, APL, ADA, brainfuck, R, LISP and dozens of others like I did if that's your nerd thing. It's fun. After you've done that you'll come to the same conclusion I did: programming languages are syntactic sugar. They are constructs for interpreting your ideas into references to libraries that instantiate the desired result in predictable ways.
C is. It stands like the Oedipus trilogy as a distillation of all prior art and a foundation of all subsequent art. It is beautiful and timeless in the same way. Learn this one thing and all else becomes easy. Unfortunately, like the Tau, it is not possible to really understand C until you don't need to do so any more. When you have learned enough about C to know why it is a fool's game you will have become ready to launch your own inferior language.
It's also used for Minecraft. And that's why I make my son boot from a fresh network image each day. He's too young to understand why enabling his Minecraft habit is a bad thing, so I do what I must.
So far as we know at the moment laser is the best method for interstellar communications. As far as propulsion direct thermal powered by fusion is looking likely. Both of these are very hard to see with the sun as a backdrop. For comms a fusion-powered laser relay on Pluto would probably do the trick. But who knows what tomorrow may bring?
Kansas city is very cold in the winter. Now that it is warming up there, they can send crews for field training from more habitable places. It takes time to build methods, processes and human resources so they start slow as they figure out the optimal ways to do things. The KC installers probably live in the KC area and if they develop too many crews they will run out of work. Once they have good processes the scale can ramp pretty quick.
Almost half the comment posts on/. are funded advocacy, and Microsoft owns 2/3rds of that. To be fair that includes Microsoft employees sharing their earnestly held POV.
Worse than that is Reddit moderation. Moneyed interests have captured moderation of all the popular Reddits, and dissent is no longer allowed. Strangely/r/science too. What depraved soul would want to prevent free discourse in/r/science? It is antithetical.
Agree. But there are agents here ageing their accounts, and have been since before you or I registered here, managed by operatives rather than folk. Money has time. You can buy low-ID/. accounts. Hell, if you have enough money you can buy mine.
This deep in the thread we are free to predict what we will, AC or not. 98% of/. viewers don't click into comments at all, and 80% don't even read comments ever. Fewer than 5% post, and the few who do usually don't thread this deep. There's likely nobody here but you and me, AC.
I'll agree/. isn't as much fun any more as it once was, and that in its charter its end was writ: The value of a free thing trends to zero.
But/. has some miles and years yet because of its special offer. Here you can put your opinion and it will stand for all time - whether you will it or no. It takes some grit to say stuff here. Other places you can spark your wit and if you miss it will be lost to time. Not so here. Here we are going to flip that stuff back into your face unto the end of days. It's a hard audience, but if you can play it/.rs have some pull.
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If you knew enough to solve this problem you wouldn't have this problem. Since you don't any attempt is just going to give you more new problems you are unable to resolve until you find yourself clad in latex and wearing a ball gag. Give it up.
Cats don't belong to people. People belong to cats.
Unfortunately I can't help you learn this. Once you have adopted the thesis this far no argument from me will satisfy you. You will have to find the exit on your own, or experience the natural consequences and gain your experience the hard way. That's OK: I've been stubborn and learned things the hard way too.
Wine and Mono are proof of the existence of the idiot savant. They brilliantly do these things, and don't know why they shouldn't.
C doesn't have safety belts and airbags, that's your complaint? They gave you the framework to create those things if you need them. If you can't be bothered to check your work and your inputs, to consider pathological cases and data, no linguistic tool is going to make your work stable and secure.
Languages are syntactic sugar. When you have implemented the basic stacks of OO, heap, stack, garbage collection, array transforms, list and set processing, the dually-linked-list-dancing-btree-with-bucket-hash, the things that other languages give as algorithms in C then you know you can implement them as C libraries properly once and be done with them. Things like inheritance, soft-typing and operator overloading are a distraction and a menace to predictability, readability and debugging. When you encounter a new problem with no lib you can just write an algorithm that can transform the datastructure in the desired way, make it a lib and call it. The usages of the various languages add nothing but orientation hurdles to get the C programmer into the language developer's state of mind. The states of mind of language developers can be sometimes interesting, but sometimes they are mad. This is not high art. This is fingerpainting. There is a guy here on /. (not me) who designs sorting algorithms that dynamically optimize on processor cache size, in 1KB of code and competes with the world's best. There is another who designed a procedurally generated FPS with unlimited terrain in 4KB. THAT is high art. Once you have mastered the use of your programming tools, you can begin to explore what art can be made with them.
Admittedly some languages have some rapid development potentials and usages where the programmer need not know his programming art, but that is "tools for fools", not real work. Even at their most obtuse, these are almost always implemented in C. Windows is almost entirely C, as is Linux, BSD, of course Unix, every game engine and of course all of the libraries and drivers. It is all C. Even the C++ compilers are more than 90% C.
Other languages, like LOGO, are for children who can't be bothered to learn their Wirth before they make the turtle draw.
Wow. Taxes are bad in the US too. If they were 4x higher I'd be paying something like 150% of my gross income. It would pay to stay home.
I'm thinking you're new here.
You could try running your economy on something other than fines levied on multinational corporations. How about you pay your own taxes like the rest of us do?
This is just another attack on Google funded by Microsoft and/or Apple. Sooner or later we will find out who got paid.
The EU economy is now pretty much run on fines levied to multinational corporations. As long as they don't tax any one too hard or often they're going to get away with it.
Languages need to keep up with the times, or they become an albatross.
Unless through being steeped in the art and basic principles and with an eye toward the future the authors built their language in such a way that it could be timeless art that stood for all time, like for example Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie's "C".
Go ahead and learn ALGOL, FORTRAN, BASIC, SNOBOL, APL, ADA, brainfuck, R, LISP and dozens of others like I did if that's your nerd thing. It's fun. After you've done that you'll come to the same conclusion I did: programming languages are syntactic sugar. They are constructs for interpreting your ideas into references to libraries that instantiate the desired result in predictable ways.
C is. It stands like the Oedipus trilogy as a distillation of all prior art and a foundation of all subsequent art. It is beautiful and timeless in the same way. Learn this one thing and all else becomes easy. Unfortunately, like the Tau, it is not possible to really understand C until you don't need to do so any more. When you have learned enough about C to know why it is a fool's game you will have become ready to launch your own inferior language.
Kids these days.
It's also used for Minecraft. And that's why I make my son boot from a fresh network image each day. He's too young to understand why enabling his Minecraft habit is a bad thing, so I do what I must.
My teller offered me online banking once. But her monitor was tilted just enough that I could tell she was using IE6. "Um, no. Thanks. I'm good."
So far as we know at the moment laser is the best method for interstellar communications. As far as propulsion direct thermal powered by fusion is looking likely. Both of these are very hard to see with the sun as a backdrop. For comms a fusion-powered laser relay on Pluto would probably do the trick. But who knows what tomorrow may bring?
Kansas city is very cold in the winter. Now that it is warming up there, they can send crews for field training from more habitable places. It takes time to build methods, processes and human resources so they start slow as they figure out the optimal ways to do things. The KC installers probably live in the KC area and if they develop too many crews they will run out of work. Once they have good processes the scale can ramp pretty quick.
This alone is reason enough to avoid both Dell securities and their products.
Pah! Google seems to think their goal is "To Serve Man" and they're the second biggest company in technology.
Almost half the comment posts on /. are funded advocacy, and Microsoft owns 2/3rds of that. To be fair that includes Microsoft employees sharing their earnestly held POV.
Worse than that is Reddit moderation. Moneyed interests have captured moderation of all the popular Reddits, and dissent is no longer allowed. Strangely /r/science too. What depraved soul would want to prevent free discourse in /r/science? It is antithetical.
Agree. But there are agents here ageing their accounts, and have been since before you or I registered here, managed by operatives rather than folk. Money has time. You can buy low-ID /. accounts. Hell, if you have enough money you can buy mine.
It takes a special kind of genius to find a way forward for a publicly held company that requires improving the human condition to maximize profit.
Fortunately both Sergey Brin and Larry Page are that sort of genius.
"We know Icahn, he's not going to give up something for nothing. But what does he get from this waiver?"
I'm just guessing here but... money?
This deep in the thread we are free to predict what we will, AC or not. 98% of /. viewers don't click into comments at all, and 80% don't even read comments ever. Fewer than 5% post, and the few who do usually don't thread this deep. There's likely nobody here but you and me, AC.
I'll agree /. isn't as much fun any more as it once was, and that in its charter its end was writ: The value of a free thing trends to zero.
But /. has some miles and years yet because of its special offer. Here you can put your opinion and it will stand for all time - whether you will it or no. It takes some grit to say stuff here. Other places you can spark your wit and if you miss it will be lost to time. Not so here. Here we are going to flip that stuff back into your face unto the end of days. It's a hard audience, but if you can play it /.rs have some pull.