Look at Python. It's a clean, easy, portable language that protects you from your own mistakes and it somehow manages to be cool.
Java is too verbose and doesn't fit my brain; that's why I don't consider it cool.
From my employer's point of view, it makes me more productive than (most) other languages would, since I spend less time worrying about crap like header files, pointers, memory leaks, and so on.
Just like about any other language in the world except C, C++ and assembly. IMHO 'it pays the bills' is the only good reason to actually learn Java -- and that is not cool. Or fun, if cool is not important for you.
While I love to see Mono working, I'd like to know why did you (Mono people) refused (at least to some extent) to cooperate with DotGNU? Texts on both DotGNU and Mono sites aren't optimistic.
I think I see his point. We already know enough to know that there really isn't anything worth sending people to. To put it in 15th century terms, it'd be like sailing all the way around the world to land on a tiny rocky atoll with no native life. There frankly are better ways to use the resources.
If Council of Ministers votes for software patents then the bill will return to european Parlament for a re-discussion, which will be postproned to September due to elections.
Coming from Poland, I tell you we should do our best to not let this happen. New MEPs won't have a clue about software patents and IMHO will be easly lobbied by the Council and huge companies.
There's one difference: a DVD decoder is not a car. You can't kill with one. I'm pretty sure that if you couldn't kill with a car, they wouldn't be licensed (so restrictivly.)
The other difference is that programs are algorithms and you shouldn't really be forbidden to create one; this is an issue more of freedom of thought/speech than anything else.
The tendency to treat computers as human could lead to people favouring or even blindly accepting computer-generated information, to the point of depending on it over superior alternatives, warned Prof Sundar.
This sounds dangerously familiar. Just look at all those people who helped those poor Nigerian guy, or buying all those en.la/rg.em\ent pil|s, or checking out who loves them...
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I'd be proud as hell!
Look at Python. It's a clean, easy, portable language that protects you from your own mistakes and it somehow manages to be cool. Java is too verbose and doesn't fit my brain; that's why I don't consider it cool.
From my employer's point of view, it makes me more productive than (most) other languages would, since I spend less time worrying about crap like header files, pointers, memory leaks, and so on.
Just like about any other language in the world except C, C++ and assembly. IMHO 'it pays the bills' is the only good reason to actually learn Java -- and that is not cool. Or fun, if cool is not important for you.
Money: the best thing that could happen to civilisation, the worst thing that could happen to humanity.
Hashcash POW is basically cash which is computed (instead of earned) and is used to pay for, for instance, acceptance of an email on a SMTP server.
While I love to see Mono working, I'd like to know why did you (Mono people) refused (at least to some extent) to cooperate with DotGNU? Texts on both DotGNU and Mono sites aren't optimistic.
They haven't fixed it for 5 years, why should they do it now? This rather means that they don't know if it's even a security threat.
I'd say it's neither.
All I need is a Beowulf cluster of those and an obligatory popcorn stand.
Welcome to a brave new Inter..., erm, Googlenet.
New? It's got 3 days already!
Am I the only one here that thinks that CS is utter sh*t?
grep TODO * is now forbidden? Someone at USPTO needs to get a clue, fast.
FYI, 'here' is Slashdot.
So this patent covers my Casio $5 shit^Wwatch which I had 10 years ago?
And what are YOU doing on Slashdot?
They state the rules and have no way of really enforcing them, so...
You seem to suggest that Java or C++ are type-safe.
Politicians don't give a flying fsck about their promises. Oh, wait...
Coming from Poland, I tell you we should do our best to not let this happen. New MEPs won't have a clue about software patents and IMHO will be easly lobbied by the Council and huge companies.
The golden rule becomes a platinum one.
There's one difference: a DVD decoder is not a car. You can't kill with one. I'm pretty sure that if you couldn't kill with a car, they wouldn't be licensed (so restrictivly.) The other difference is that programs are algorithms and you shouldn't really be forbidden to create one; this is an issue more of freedom of thought/speech than anything else.
The tendency to treat computers as human could lead to people favouring or even blindly accepting computer-generated information, to the point of depending on it over superior alternatives, warned Prof Sundar.
This sounds dangerously familiar. Just look at all those people who helped those poor Nigerian guy, or buying all those en.la/rg.em\ent pil|s, or checking out who loves them...
I won't even bother mentioning Slashdot... oops.