One place that TCL really shines is with async sockets. TCL makes it really easy to prototype a server. It's builtin support of the server socket [socket -server cmd...] enables a very easy creation of an non-forking iterative server, that does surprisingly well. And is also remarkably portable between windows, Linux, and Solaris.
I've also used Python for this, but I feel that Python's asyncore is still too buggy for prime time, and also the asynchore library is slightly more complex to utilize.
Another great aspect of TCL is how easy it is to extend. I can compare directly to JNI and Python extensions. TCL by far has the easiest and cleanest extension API for C or C++.
And finally embedding an TCL interpreter into another ap, is equally easy... Hence the near ubiquitour support of TK in other scripting languages, including Python and Perl.
Forget "JD Almanac", it's just trying to muscle in on David Flanagan's successful J in a Nutshell books. Flanagans' first five chapters make up the best overview/tutorial on Java.
The Almanac copies Flanagan's format, but fails at the quality.
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COMDEX is obsolete as many here have pointed out already. The better show that many hold out for is CES which is held 7 weeks later and has nearly the same attendence. Computers have already become consumer electronic products. Witness all the MP3 players and digital video equipment, linux based residential gateways and set-top boxes that debut at CES. Comdex is finished.
Excuse me while I chime in here. I'm not a real doctor but I play one on IM. Clients often ask me: "Doctor, why is it that I feel bad." And I chuckle and I say, "Listen to me SuckMe93, I've had lots of patients like you: People that just don't feel good. I've seen them come and I've seen them go. But in the end it all works out. It's like the skaters say: 'It's all good.'"
Now my point is, we're all doctors aren't we? I mean we take a little, we give a little. We wake up, we feel good. We sleep, and then we swim in the sea of life and we heal.
I remember when Philip Glass and his Minimilism was the rage. Frank Zappa stepped forward and called it what it was: music for and by academia wankers. Glass' overrated sound track was amusing for K-tki but was absolute boring terror for P-tki. I haven't checked the site, but hopefully Telepopmusic or Fatboy Slim, Gus Gus even, or Beck, hell I'll even take N'Sync and Brittany Spears, just please don't bring back Philip Glass.
In the systems programming world threading, thread scheduling, and signal processing in threads, was always considered Linux' primary weakness; and was the main strength of Solaris, especially for applications running in the telecom space. But with this announcement, I can see Solaris' last tech superority over Linux crumbling.
I think Sun will need to quicken its re-invention pace.
Now that IBM and Apple are collaborating on a nice CPU, they should get together and make an OS to go with it. Collaborating together they could make this OS, and call it Maligent! It'll be a big success. Two large tech giants collaborating. How could it fail?
Dr Wallace, The New York Times bio stated that you smoked five joints a day to help alleviate depression. Do you think the pot smoking in general, aside from the medical benefits, has helped you create the ALICE characters? And what's it like to write code while spaced out out cannabis?
It is ironic that MS got into business doing the
same thing hacking the BIOS.
Like the true geek he is, Bill only shrugs at
irony. You can bet his team of bank rolled
lawyers will be mounting their possee ready to
hang WINE. MS doesn't need a court victory or a
legitimate case: They can cripple WINE with legal fees.
The pornography industry has been a tech pioneer. I worked on a rather lame porn site in '95 that utilized realm authentication, used databases, tracked user 'preferences'; All cutting edge for the time. It was also of the first to implement the perl packages from (now failed) CyberCash. The porn industry was also first to make use of push-gifs, streaming media, and advanced features of DVDs, now all common place. Looking forward I'm sure pornographers will be first with the revolution going on in 3-d technology and the new generation of cameras.
Sex, or porn, might be the lowest common denomiinated message - the easiest content when content is a void. As Marshall MacCluan opined, as the medium expands, the message moves closer to it's lowest common denomintor -- which I would say is porn. I think we can witness small examples of this on cable TV -- the more channels we get, the more insepid the programming gets.
And on the web, the more URLs, the more porn. It's MacLuen's premis in action.
As mentioned in numerous posts, p2p is simply another way to have fun with standard and ubiquitous tcp/ip.
The p2p internet will occur when 56k connections are remembered with nostalgia. When, not if, but when, fiber to the home, or ethernet to the home, goes pro, we will see p2p as the dominant traffic pattern through all those routers.
When we all have symmetrical (upload_bps == download_pbs) connections with 100mbs pipes, we are all simultaneous consummers and producers. The central networks and distribution networks a` la Akamai, Inktomi, Digital Island will become irrelevent. Anybody can stream video, anyone can cache content. We'll all be able to present content as easily as we can retrieve it.
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A content-management system that ran Ampex robotic tape drives.
One place that TCL really shines is with async sockets. TCL makes it really easy to prototype a server. It's builtin support of the server socket [socket -server cmd ...] enables a very easy creation of an non-forking iterative server, that does surprisingly well. And is also remarkably portable between windows, Linux, and Solaris.
I've also used Python for this, but I feel that Python's asyncore is still too buggy for prime time, and also the asynchore library is slightly more complex to utilize.
Another great aspect of TCL is how easy it is to extend. I can compare directly to JNI and Python extensions. TCL by far has the easiest and cleanest extension API for C or C++.
And finally embedding an TCL interpreter into another ap, is equally easy... Hence the near ubiquitour support of TK in other scripting languages, including Python and Perl.
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Forget "JD Almanac", it's just trying to muscle
in on David Flanagan's successful J in a Nutshell
books. Flanagans' first five chapters make
up the best overview/tutorial on Java.
The Almanac copies Flanagan's format, but fails
at the quality.
COMDEX is obsolete as many here have pointed out already. The better show that many hold out for is CES which is held 7 weeks later and has nearly the same attendence. Computers have already become consumer electronic products. Witness all the MP3 players and digital video equipment, linux based residential gateways and set-top boxes that debut at CES. Comdex is finished.
Inspired by Taiwan's proclamation, I announce to the /. community that I too reject this copyright extention.
Excuse me while I chime in here. I'm not a real
doctor but I play one on IM. Clients often ask me: "Doctor, why is it that I feel bad." And I chuckle and I say, "Listen to me SuckMe93, I've had lots of patients like you: People that just don't feel good. I've seen them come and I've seen them go. But in the end it all works out. It's like the skaters say: 'It's all good.'"
Now my point is, we're all doctors aren't we? I mean we take a little, we give a little. We wake up, we feel good. We sleep, and then we swim in the sea of life and we heal.
Thanks for listening,
- The Doctor.
I remember when Philip Glass and his Minimilism
was the rage. Frank Zappa stepped forward and called it what it was: music for and by academia wankers. Glass' overrated sound track was amusing for K-tki but was absolute boring terror for P-tki. I haven't checked the site, but hopefully Telepopmusic or Fatboy Slim, Gus Gus even, or Beck, hell I'll even take N'Sync and Brittany Spears, just please don't bring back Philip Glass.
In the systems programming world threading, thread
scheduling, and signal processing in threads, was always considered Linux' primary weakness; and was the main strength of Solaris, especially for applications running in the telecom space. But with this announcement, I can see Solaris' last tech superority over Linux crumbling.
I think Sun will need to quicken its re-invention pace.
-j
Now that IBM and Apple are collaborating on a nice CPU, they should get together and make an OS to go with it. Collaborating together they could make this OS, and call it Maligent! It'll be a big success. Two large tech giants collaborating. How could it fail?
Oooh. I just had some deja vu.
Dr Wallace,
The New York Times bio stated that you smoked five joints a day to help alleviate depression. Do you think the pot smoking in general, aside from the medical benefits, has helped you create the ALICE characters? And what's it like to write code while spaced out out cannabis?
It is ironic that MS got into business doing the
same thing hacking the BIOS.
Like the true geek he is, Bill only shrugs at
irony. You can bet his team of bank rolled
lawyers will be mounting their possee ready to
hang WINE. MS doesn't need a court victory or a
legitimate case: They can cripple WINE with legal fees.
I remember back in the AI days (the 80s), projects were categorized by the programming language:
LISP : Standard AI stuff.
Prolog: Theoretical AI Research.
C : HMM or Neural Net
Anyone know if prolog still exists?
The pornography industry has been a tech pioneer. I worked on a rather lame porn site in '95 that utilized realm authentication, used databases, tracked user 'preferences'; All cutting edge for the time. It was also of the first to implement the perl packages from (now failed) CyberCash. The porn industry was also first to make use of push-gifs, streaming media, and advanced features of DVDs, now all common place. Looking forward I'm sure pornographers will be first with the revolution going on in 3-d technology and the new generation of cameras.
Sex, or porn, might be the lowest common denomiinated message - the easiest content when content is a void. As Marshall MacCluan opined, as the medium expands, the message moves closer to it's lowest common denomintor -- which I would say is porn. I think we can witness small examples of this on cable TV -- the more channels we get, the more insepid the programming gets.
And on the web, the more URLs, the more porn. It's MacLuen's premis in action.
-z
As mentioned in numerous posts, p2p is simply another way to have fun with standard and ubiquitous tcp/ip.
The p2p internet will occur when 56k connections are remembered with nostalgia. When, not if, but when, fiber to the home, or ethernet to the home, goes pro, we will see p2p as the dominant traffic pattern through all those routers.
When we all have symmetrical (upload_bps == download_pbs) connections with 100mbs pipes, we are all simultaneous consummers and producers. The central networks and distribution networks a` la Akamai, Inktomi, Digital Island will become irrelevent. Anybody can stream video, anyone can cache content. We'll all be able to present content as easily as we can retrieve it.