Perl is still tremendously useful as system scripting language (one may prefer bash iif does not know Perl) and text processing. Perl was extended beyond its natural scope because in a certain time lapse, it was the only tool available to do quick prototyping and an aid to quickly deploy complex web applications (particularly).
Maybe its true that it has come to the final developement phase. Other languages, more focused on specific purposes and without the limitations/quirks of Perl (TMTOWTDI - There's more than one way to do it - is a problem more that an advantage), have picked up its most useful characteristics, so Perl is no more so central in application development and it will go back to its original scope.
If Perl will go extinct it would mean that other , better languages have took its place, but this is not a problem, it's normal evolution.
good question.. If most if not all of the jobs can be carried out by machines how can a growing population earn a decent living? I think it depends on who owns the land and the means of production. In a capitalistic world in which only the rich can afford this kind technology this will end up with war and famine, in a communist world in which all belongs to the state maybe people will share the output of the production, in theory. We saw however that amongst communist there are people that are more equal than others and so...
In general, if you need a debugger while developing your code then you may not know what you are doing. Maybe you are developing very special stuff, otherwise the intensive use of a debugger means either lack of experience and/or skill..
If I were a shareholder I would be quite worried about the (cr)Apple strategy. IMHO this is a clear signal of lack of innovative ideas. Innovation cannot be a continuos flow and they are reaching their limits. I doubt that the iphone 5 will be a planetary success because of the lack of real innovation in it. It's a sad black thing with infamous rounded corners. It's not appealing neither aestethically nor tecnologically. The competitors do at least the same and also much better. They appear on the descending path.
The patent attack unleashed by Apple against the most important Android manufacturers and indirectly against Android itself could benefit M$ , eventually.
If manufactured get pissed against Google because of its patent vulnerabilities they could switch to windows 8 that is far more safe from this standpoint (M$ and Apple have cross licensing agreements). This "Bing" story is another element that make me think about at some secret agreement between the two most evil companies in the IT.
Maybe Apple will win and will rule them all using the "rounded corners" of the power. As a consumer I think that this is the last thing that we need and fortunately I have high hopes that this won't happen.
Apple is going against the entire industry, against the consumers, against the policy makers (well, those of them that are not yet bribed:-) ) and maybe more.
She can't succeed mostly like Hitler and the Nazi Germany couldn't win.
Apple is rich and powerful but can't win if everybody will join forces.
Apple can't win because Apple is, at the end, against the general interest. An entire industry cannot be at the mercy of a single player. Even if they are right (but they aren't) under the current patent's law system, the civil society will perceive the injustice and that they don't need another modern, greedy tyrant that imposes its extortion against consumers and competitors.
I suppose that when people will go to the mall and see then Samsung's shelves empty (as happened to me when the Galaxy 10.1 was banned in Europe for a while) and is forced to buy Apple crap or desist, will get the perception of what Apple actually is and will realize that this company is evil.
I recommend anyone I know against buying Apple products because Apple is bad for the consumers and for the innovation.
IMHO we are nearing a radical shift in desktop user interface technology driven by the evolution of the web.
No more GTK or QT, at least at the top development level but html5/css/javascript. The standards will help
to develop desktop components in a separate way so that instead of a monolitic desktop system like KDE or GNOME
we will have a standard framework (maybe gecko, like on B2G) on which the components will fit.
I am a longtime Linux-On-The-Desktop user (about 18 years), I love KDE and I'm using it since version 2.0 but I am finding
myself more and more using applications that don't rely on KDE.
Konqueror is not up with the competition any more (it was always lagging behind), so I use mainly Firefox
I don't use Kmail any more cause the mess they did with the akonadi stuff so i am using Thunderbird now (not a good looking program but
fits my needs. It's fast, it's reliable, has a lot of useful extensions, the html rendering is way better)
I used Kdevelop but it cannot compete with Eclipse or Netbeans for my needs at least (and it has more bugs, some really annoying)
Libreoffice is more complete ad reliable than Koffice or whatever it calls itself now
Social stuff is migrated mainly on the smartphone...
I have been using 6 Beta for two months because of the instabilities of version 5.x. Typing something in the location bar was often enough to crash the browser. Chrome is not complete or flexible as the the other browsers on the market but for sure is the faster. This only thing makes me to prefer chrome over the others.
If one knows that the government in Italy is "owned" by the richest Italy man and owner of the biggest MEDIA concentration. He's only protecting his business (which is the very reason that led him into politics).
What you said is true in theory, only. In practice this government is doing all it can to limit the judiciary power. This power is particularly hated by the premier which had (and still has) many legal problems. Some judges that were investingating about corruptions worth many millions of euros and involving many politicians and possibly the southern italy mafia, were recently removed under the government pressure.
Thus, not all the judges are exactly ready to risk their career by running investigations undesired by the government.On the contrary many of them are ready to brown-nose the politicians.
If one ADDS to this the fact that mr. Berlusconi is the owner of the bigger MEDIA concentration in Italy (his family owns newspapers and TVs and, being the premier, has a strong control on the state televisions) and has sent his legals against Youtube which is responsible to publish parts of Belusconi's TVs shows, s/he can understand the reasons of this action against Pirate Bay.
We in Italy are experiencing the rise of a party founded by a rich moron which controls newspapers and televisions. He was (still is?) the member of the covered masonic lodge names "P2" which had in his plans exactly what this government is doing, i.e., concentrate the power in the hands of the premier and destroy the democracy. This party absorbed the post-fascist party.
In UK there is something strange going on. The power has been is in the hands of a the labour party for many years but I noticed that several Big-Brother laws were passed during these years. Laws aimed at the electronic control of the people and at the suppression of the democracy.
Open source believes in work, in fantasy, in the please one can get in doing something useful for the other people.
A corporate environment is pervaded by power battles at every level of the organization and pressure from the market that often lead to sub-optimal choices and less that optimal products.
Everything they can do is to stole ideas from OSS.
I used Perl for ten years, but for me is almost dead now. Ruby, Python, even Javascript (Rhino) and other languages have the same pattern matching capabilities (Perl's greatest strength), have a more clean syntax and, which is very important, have been ported to the JVM. Something that make them usable in different environments and embeddable in other applications. Perl is not there yet and it appears that it will never be.
When I have a problem and I google for a solution and find nothing I think that my problem isn't really a problem. The reason could be my inexperience or my need for more rest! I think the same logic could be applied to the lack of a quality oss "calendar". The people using oss just do not care very much about that. This kind of software is more for the "suites" spinning around chewing air in the big corps.
I had the same experience. I work in a big corporation in which everybody uses Windows. My job is rather technical. I started with XP since It was recommended, however, after a few months I switched to Linux. I have to say that the productivity is much higher with Linux. The only problems I encounter are due to the webapp I'm working with. It works with MSIE only so I have to keep XP in a qemu environment on my laptop.
For M$ of course... They're fighting the last battle. It will take a while however people and companies will move faster and faster towards new ways of using software, both OS and productivity. Software will be mainly a service and M$ will be out (and nobody will cry for this).
Automated vote counting of any kind - electronic or mechanical - makes fraud considerably easier, puts a mystery shroud around the counting process and as such is incompatible with democracy
Agreed! There is a guy in Italy (we are, unfortunately, about to test the electronic vote in April) that set up a very interesting and detailed site about the incompatibility between electronig voting and democracy.
Please take a look here
Maybe Russia is the home of piracy but the US are the home of the bullying over other countries and people.
US people should fight the greedy corporations that would enslave the world.
quality is dacaying. I think this post will be marked as a flamebait however I don't care. I'm noticing that apart of "first posts", stupid posts that pretend to be funny and so on, slashdot is becoming unreadable...
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Perl is still tremendously useful as system scripting language (one may prefer bash iif does not know Perl) and text processing. Perl was extended beyond its natural scope because in a certain time lapse, it was the only tool available to do quick prototyping and an aid to quickly deploy complex web applications (particularly). Maybe its true that it has come to the final developement phase. Other languages, more focused on specific purposes and without the limitations/quirks of Perl (TMTOWTDI - There's more than one way to do it - is a problem more that an advantage), have picked up its most useful characteristics, so Perl is no more so central in application development and it will go back to its original scope. If Perl will go extinct it would mean that other , better languages have took its place, but this is not a problem, it's normal evolution.
good question.. If most if not all of the jobs can be carried out by machines how can a growing population earn a decent living? I think it depends on who owns the land and the means of production. In a capitalistic world in which only the rich can afford this kind technology this will end up with war and famine, in a communist world in which all belongs to the state maybe people will share the output of the production, in theory. We saw however that amongst communist there are people that are more equal than others and so ...
In general, if you need a debugger while developing your code then you may not know what you are doing. Maybe you are developing very special stuff, otherwise the intensive use of a debugger means either lack of experience and/or skill..
If I were a shareholder I would be quite worried about the (cr)Apple strategy. IMHO this is a clear signal of lack of innovative ideas. Innovation cannot be a continuos flow and they are reaching their limits. I doubt that the iphone 5 will be a planetary success because of the lack of real innovation in it. It's a sad black thing with infamous rounded corners. It's not appealing neither aestethically nor tecnologically. The competitors do at least the same and also much better. They appear on the descending path.
The patent attack unleashed by Apple against the most important Android manufacturers and indirectly against Android itself could benefit M$ , eventually. If manufactured get pissed against Google because of its patent vulnerabilities they could switch to windows 8 that is far more safe from this standpoint (M$ and Apple have cross licensing agreements). This "Bing" story is another element that make me think about at some secret agreement between the two most evil companies in the IT.
Maybe Apple will win and will rule them all using the "rounded corners" of the power. As a consumer I think that this is the last thing that we need and fortunately I have high hopes that this won't happen. Apple is going against the entire industry, against the consumers, against the policy makers (well, those of them that are not yet bribed :-) ) and maybe more.
She can't succeed mostly like Hitler and the Nazi Germany couldn't win.
Apple is rich and powerful but can't win if everybody will join forces.
Apple can't win because Apple is, at the end, against the general interest. An entire industry cannot be at the mercy of a single player. Even if they are right (but they aren't) under the current patent's law system, the civil society will perceive the injustice and that they don't need another modern, greedy tyrant that imposes its extortion against consumers and competitors.
I suppose that when people will go to the mall and see then Samsung's shelves empty (as happened to me when the Galaxy 10.1 was banned in Europe for a while) and is forced to buy Apple crap or desist, will get the perception of what Apple actually is and will realize that this company is evil. I recommend anyone I know against buying Apple products because Apple is bad for the consumers and for the innovation.
This is a really stupid idea!
Totally agreed! Coders use a formalism to build programs. The base symbols used don't matter.
So... what remains is the desktop, not enough..
I have been using 6 Beta for two months because of the instabilities of version 5.x. Typing something in the location bar was often enough to crash the browser. Chrome is not complete or flexible as the the other browsers on the market but for sure is the faster. This only thing makes me to prefer chrome over the others.
If one knows that the government in Italy is "owned" by the richest Italy man and owner of the biggest MEDIA concentration. He's only protecting his business (which is the very reason that led him into politics).
What you said is true in theory, only. In practice this government is doing all it can to limit the judiciary power. This power is particularly hated by the premier which had (and still has) many legal problems. Some judges that were investingating about corruptions worth many millions of euros and involving many politicians and possibly the southern italy mafia, were recently removed under the government pressure. Thus, not all the judges are exactly ready to risk their career by running investigations undesired by the government.On the contrary many of them are ready to brown-nose the politicians. If one ADDS to this the fact that mr. Berlusconi is the owner of the bigger MEDIA concentration in Italy (his family owns newspapers and TVs and, being the premier, has a strong control on the state televisions) and has sent his legals against Youtube which is responsible to publish parts of Belusconi's TVs shows, s/he can understand the reasons of this action against Pirate Bay.
We in Italy are experiencing the rise of a party founded by a rich moron which controls newspapers and televisions. He was (still is?) the member of the covered masonic lodge names "P2" which had in his plans exactly what this government is doing, i.e., concentrate the power in the hands of the premier and destroy the democracy. This party absorbed the post-fascist party. In UK there is something strange going on. The power has been is in the hands of a the labour party for many years but I noticed that several Big-Brother laws were passed during these years. Laws aimed at the electronic control of the people and at the suppression of the democracy.
Can be effectively used to serialize/de-serialize messages with whatever content and avoid the XML parsing overhead.
here http://atomic-motor.blogspot.com/
Open source believes in work, in fantasy, in the please one can get in doing something useful for the other people. A corporate environment is pervaded by power battles at every level of the organization and pressure from the market that often lead to sub-optimal choices and less that optimal products. Everything they can do is to stole ideas from OSS.
I used Perl for ten years, but for me is almost dead now. Ruby, Python, even Javascript (Rhino) and other languages have the same pattern matching capabilities (Perl's greatest strength), have a more clean syntax and, which is very important, have been ported to the JVM. Something that make them usable in different environments and embeddable in other applications. Perl is not there yet and it appears that it will never be.
When I have a problem and I google for a solution and find nothing I think that my problem isn't really a problem. The reason could be my inexperience or my need for more rest! I think the same logic could be applied to the lack of a quality oss "calendar". The people using oss just do not care very much about that. This kind of software is more for the "suites" spinning around chewing air in the big corps.
I had the same experience. I work in a big corporation in which everybody uses Windows. My job is rather technical. I started with XP since It was recommended, however, after a few months I switched to Linux. I have to say that the productivity is much higher with Linux. The only problems I encounter are due to the webapp I'm working with. It works with MSIE only so I have to keep XP in a qemu environment on my laptop.
For M$ of course... They're fighting the last battle. It will take a while however people and companies will move faster and faster towards new ways of using software, both OS and productivity. Software will be mainly a service and M$ will be out (and nobody will cry for this).
Ok, It's true, Al Jazeera may be a little biased, so let's trust FOXNEWS that is "Fair and Balanced" Muhahahahah
Agreed! There is a guy in Italy (we are, unfortunately, about to test the electronic vote in April) that set up a very interesting and detailed site about the incompatibility between electronig voting and democracy. Please take a look here
http://www.electronic-vote.org/
The site is worth a visit.
Maybe Russia is the home of piracy but the US are the home of the bullying over other countries and people. US people should fight the greedy corporations that would enslave the world.
quality is dacaying. I think this post will be marked as a flamebait however I don't care. I'm noticing that apart of "first posts", stupid posts that pretend to be funny and so on, slashdot is becoming unreadable ...