No, just reverse engineering existing code wont tell you what you really need to know, which is the theory behind what the programmer was thinking.
Besides, the preprocessor may have been auto-generated with something like lexx/yacc which makes a giant state machine and will just give you a giant headache trying to figure it out from the code. You need to read up on tokens, lexemes, parse trees and other internal representations, once you understand those, you'll understand the meat and potatoes of a compiler.
Also you're probably far better off looking at something like GCC than some old Borland crap.
Seems like his gripe is actually with STL and possibly curl's interface, not C++ per se.
I like C++ (classes, exceptions etc) but generally avoid using STL except possibly for basic things like cout, strings and vectors. STL code becomes unreadable FAST, and quickly turns a simple problem into a giant pain in the ass, especially when debugging.
What pay employers will offer is a direct function of supply and demand. All the big companies are complaining about a shortage of STEM workers, but the reality has to be that its just not the case, otherwise there would be more competition for thos workers which would directly translate into higher wages offered. Clearly the complaints are a baseless dog-and-pony show, probably just to keep the H1Bs flowing, which is also presumably where most of the supply is coming from that is actually surpessing the demand (and therefore wages) for local talent.
Yeah this is the real problem: new workers participating in a race to the bottom. If somehow everyone could just agree to not take those jobs, employers would have to up their offer to survive.
Damn those women for freely making their own life choices! Can't they see that they're messing up my self-evidently correct social agenda by not marching in lock-step with it?
That's really not very politically correct of you to use actual intelligent argument based on logic, rather than a fact-free emotional outburst.
As I can find, there's no initiative at all to get more men into nursing (92% inequity), let alone one the size of the massive campaign to get women into STEM (76% inequity).
> if the kids are old enough to get to the pier unaccompanied
Read the original post. we're talking about toddlers. Sorry but regardless of any psychology experiment results or anything else, anyone that leaves a toddler alone on a pier is simply a moron that shouldn't be entrusted with kids.
I think we need to accept that there are bad parents out there and that theaters themselves should be legally obliged to not allow obviously underage kids into R rated movies in the first place.
Congratulations on being a great parent, I think you did exactly the right thing. Allow him to experience new things but be immediately there for him as a safety net.
>> they should expect that rambunctious kids in their vicinity are par for the course.
Yes most people should be prepared for that, but their presumed willingness to put up with your kid doesn't make it a reasonable excuse to allow your kid to go climbing all over strangers and roaming free in a dangerous environment.
Dunno, that sounds like it would just result in them becoming even noisier. I'm thinking tranqulizer darts. Keep a few extra handy for when the parents realize what you did.
> It's called "being a kid." If you can't handle that, I'd say the problem lies with you,
I agree the kid is just being a kid, but kids do not have life experience or awareness of risks. Thats what good parents teach them, but people that think like you (that its OK for their kid to be everyone elses problem, and those people should just put up with some strangers out-of-control kid) aren't ever good parents.
if kids are allowed to annoy others, such as by running around in a movie theater, then the fault is definitely with the clueless parents. Not least bcause they are encouraging them to be inconsiderate little brats.
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No, just reverse engineering existing code wont tell you what you really need to know, which is the theory behind what the programmer was thinking.
Besides, the preprocessor may have been auto-generated with something like lexx/yacc which makes a giant state machine and will just give you a giant headache trying to figure it out from the code.
You need to read up on tokens, lexemes, parse trees and other internal representations, once you understand those, you'll understand the meat and potatoes of a compiler.
Also you're probably far better off looking at something like GCC than some old Borland crap.
>> I'm currently going through an old compiler book to translate Borland C into modern C
err... why?
Yeah on this very site: An embedded ad for a whitepaper on Visual Cobol being the next big thing for business.
Seems like his gripe is actually with STL and possibly curl's interface, not C++ per se.
I like C++ (classes, exceptions etc) but generally avoid using STL except possibly for basic things like cout, strings and vectors. STL code becomes unreadable FAST, and quickly turns a simple problem into a giant pain in the ass, especially when debugging.
Well, being English I think I can reasonably assume I'm a native English speaker. And no, correct grammar is not "inappropreate" (sic) for this site.
This is DDR Five. So I guess it should be FDR.
> DDR5 RAM will double the speed of DDR4 in 2018
I heard you can set your system clock ahead to 2018 and your RAM will go double-speed today.
What is this new-fangled Dynamic memory you speak of? I'm still using static me#@$@$^*
>> DDR5 RAM will double the speed of DDR4 in 2018
Thats cool! Will my DDR4 go back to normal speed in 2019?
What pay employers will offer is a direct function of supply and demand.
All the big companies are complaining about a shortage of STEM workers, but the reality has to be that its just not the case, otherwise there would be more competition for thos workers which would directly translate into higher wages offered.
Clearly the complaints are a baseless dog-and-pony show, probably just to keep the H1Bs flowing, which is also presumably where most of the supply is coming from that is actually surpessing the demand (and therefore wages) for local talent.
Yeah this is the real problem: new workers participating in a race to the bottom.
If somehow everyone could just agree to not take those jobs, employers would have to up their offer to survive.
Damn those women for freely making their own life choices! Can't they see that they're messing up my self-evidently correct social agenda by not marching in lock-step with it?
That's really not very politically correct of you to use actual intelligent argument based on logic, rather than a fact-free emotional outburst.
As I can find, there's no initiative at all to get more men into nursing (92% inequity), let alone one the size of the massive campaign to get women into STEM (76% inequity).
....you would almost think that women are ACTIVELY CHOOSING not to do STEM or something....
The ultimate irony is that Microsoft is a platinum member.
>> I myself didn't mind my kids clambering around near total strangers
Did it even cross you mind that THEY probably minded?
>> Briefly, I have an innate belief in the general goodness of people
Yeah good luck with that. You sound like a terrible parent.
> if the kids are old enough to get to the pier unaccompanied
Read the original post. we're talking about toddlers. Sorry but regardless of any psychology experiment results or anything else, anyone that leaves a toddler alone on a pier is simply a moron that shouldn't be entrusted with kids.
What part of "pier" says "safe for young unaccompanied kids" to you?
Yeah I get that. but what I'm saying is that needs to change.
I think we need to accept that there are bad parents out there and that theaters themselves should be legally obliged to not allow obviously underage kids into R rated movies in the first place.
Congratulations on being a great parent, I think you did exactly the right thing. Allow him to experience new things but be immediately there for him as a safety net.
>> they should expect that rambunctious kids in their vicinity are par for the course.
Yes most people should be prepared for that, but their presumed willingness to put up with your kid doesn't make it a reasonable excuse to allow your kid to go climbing all over strangers and roaming free in a dangerous environment.
I hope you'll be just as understanding as you expect me to be as I shine my very bright flashlight in your face.
Dunno, that sounds like it would just result in them becoming even noisier. I'm thinking tranqulizer darts. Keep a few extra handy for when the parents realize what you did.
> It's called "being a kid." If you can't handle that, I'd say the problem lies with you,
I agree the kid is just being a kid, but kids do not have life experience or awareness of risks. Thats what good parents teach them, but people that think like you (that its OK for their kid to be everyone elses problem, and those people should just put up with some strangers out-of-control kid) aren't ever good parents.
if kids are allowed to annoy others, such as by running around in a movie theater, then the fault is definitely with the clueless parents. Not least bcause they are encouraging them to be inconsiderate little brats.