I really hate to pollute this wonderful discussion with actual facts, but this issue has actually been studied and numbers are available:
"An Empirical Comparison of Programming Languages
Lutz Prechelt, An Empirical Comparison of C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Rexx, and Tcl.
80 implementations of the same set of requirements are compared for several properties, such as runtime, memory consumption, source text length, comment density, program structure, reliability, and the amount of time required for writing them. The results indicate that, for the given programming problem, which regards string manipulation and search in a dictionary, "scripting languages" (Perl, Python, Rexx, Tcl) are more productive than "conventional languages". In terms of run time and memory consumption, they often turn out better than Java and not much worse than C or C++. In general, the differences between languages tend to be smaller than the typical differences due to different programmers within the same language."
Just print off a snail mail letter to the customer and to AOL, confirming that you've removed their
account because you were reported as spamming them.
This puts the onus on the customer.
Or send an email confirmation to the customer from another server?
This is just a hold-over from the days when I worked on voting machines and I had to manually zero out each counter prior to setting the machine up. We used a thing that looked like a semi-circular protracter with a serrated edge and ran it against each non-zero counter to spin it back to zero. The judges would print out a tally sheet at the start of the day to verify that the voting machine workers had hit every counter. So these zero printouts just give a feeling of security rather than security itself. Sort of like the soldiers in camo at the airport terminals.
That works out to about $35,000,000 for each life saved, if you figure about 25 million cars sold per year. Seems kind of steep.
To put it another way, you could take the 500 * 25000000 = 12 billion dollars per year that this would cost and save a whole bunch more than 300 people.
I actually went slackware one better and replaced all the scripts with one rc script that took a single argument to describe the runlevel. That way everything ended up in one file. It was a breeze to maintain.
Yeah, this is just a way of raising the barriers to entry. Obviously Linux can't be trusted because it was written overseas by a smelly bunch of anarchists who didn't even have proper licenses.
C'mon, the net is a convenience, not a necessity. People are not going to starve and die in snowbanks if the Internet goes down, even if it goes down for a month.
And so it's pretty fundamental to think about Web services and how that's built in. That's what really takes the Internet to the next level where you're going out and getting price quotes or the latest results on customer satisfaction, and having software interaction. All those information sources are brought into one rich visualization. That was the demo we did this morning.
Didn't a couple of people catch smallpox at a similar research facility about 10 years ago? One of them died as I recall. And that was an ACCIDENT.
What if someone decided to, for example, blow up a car bomb outside this lab and scatter bioactive
material all over the University?
This research is just nutso.
Usually application generators are called "application generators" and code generation refers to compiler code generation, and has for decades. Terminology is important if you want to be able to index and retrieve.
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I wonder how many shares SCO has bought pursuant to its recently-announced "stock buy-back program"
Maybe I'll send a query to their investor relations email address just to see what they say.
I really hate to pollute this wonderful discussion with actual facts, but this issue has actually been studied and numbers are available:
"An Empirical Comparison of Programming Languages
Lutz Prechelt, An Empirical Comparison of C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Rexx, and Tcl.
80 implementations of the same set of requirements are compared for several properties, such as runtime, memory consumption, source text length, comment density, program structure, reliability, and the amount of time required for writing them. The results indicate that, for the given programming problem, which regards string manipulation and search in a dictionary, "scripting languages" (Perl, Python, Rexx, Tcl) are more productive than "conventional languages". In terms of run time and memory consumption, they often turn out better than Java and not much worse than C or C++. In general, the differences between languages tend to be smaller than the typical differences due to different programmers within the same language."
From an article on the same page, apparently
bananas haven't had sex in 10,000 years and
are dangerously monocultured as a result.
Just print off a snail mail letter to the customer and to AOL, confirming that you've removed their account because you were reported as spamming them. This puts the onus on the customer. Or send an email confirmation to the customer from another server?
Does your girlfriend like your family and
vice-versa? I'd hire one or the other unless
you want to get stuck in the middle.
This is just a hold-over from the days when I worked on voting machines and I had to manually zero out each counter prior to setting the machine up. We used a thing that looked like a semi-circular protracter with a serrated edge and ran it against each non-zero counter to spin it back to zero. The judges would print out a tally sheet at the start of the day to verify that the voting machine workers had hit every counter. So these zero printouts just
give a feeling of security rather than security itself. Sort of like the soldiers in camo at the airport terminals.
That works out to about $35,000,000 for each life
saved, if you figure about 25 million cars sold
per year. Seems kind of steep.
To put it another way, you could take the
500 * 25000000 = 12 billion dollars per year
that this would cost and save a whole bunch more
than 300 people.
I actually went slackware one better and replaced all the scripts with one rc script that took a single argument to describe the runlevel. That way everything ended up in one file. It was a breeze
to maintain.
Yeah, this is just a way of raising the barriers to entry. Obviously Linux can't be trusted because it was written overseas by a smelly bunch of anarchists who didn't even have proper licenses.
C'mon, the net is a convenience, not a necessity.
People are not going to starve and die in
snowbanks if the Internet goes down, even if
it goes down for a month.
Another thing that one can do to justify /etc/wtmp -> /usr/wtmp -> /var/log/wtmp.
one's existence is to rename files,
like conf.modules modules.conf,
or
This is much easier than rewriting code
and every bit as disruptive.
Cease lying to federal judges would be a start.
Isn't that called perjury?
We used to have a Glory to God
Towing company in Fort Collins.
And maybe discuss the actual algorithms
instead of the UI.
SCOX stock is down quite a bit over the last few
days, and a 30,000 share insider sale was announced
yesterday, the largest in more than a year.
Did they hire three mathematicians from MIT?
This is going to be kind of hard on
birdlife, isn't it?
blah blah blah ...
And so it's pretty fundamental to think about Web services and how that's built in. That's what really takes the Internet to the next level where you're going out and getting price quotes or the latest results on customer satisfaction, and having software interaction. All those information sources are brought into one rich visualization. That was the demo we did this morning.
Didn't a couple of people catch smallpox at a similar research facility about 10 years ago? One of them died as I recall. And that was an ACCIDENT. What if someone decided to, for example, blow up a car bomb outside this lab and scatter bioactive material all over the University? This research is just nutso.
It could be that someone is manipulating the stock. A "short squeeze" to drive all the current shorters busted, followed by a massive sell-off.
Usually application generators are called
"application generators" and code generation
refers to compiler code generation, and has
for decades. Terminology is important if
you want to be able to index and retrieve.
SCO has apparently removed their
letter to Linux users from their web site.