I was going to ask you to explain few things in more details until you showed how insecure you are in your last sentence. Congratulations for ruining such a nice post.
I'm the one that's insecure, okaaaaaaaaay. I'm not the one who needs a sig boasting I'm "intellectually superior" or posting AC calling people insecure. If you're going to have a sig like that, expect to get flamed when you make misinformed statements.
I find it makes quite a nice editor. I had no problems editing XML and CSS. Is there something particular you don't like instead of just saying "it sucks"?
Yes, but you can compile it to native code using ngen.exe or mono --aot, and then distribute that if you want.
Oh right. Sun should make something like that for Java. In fact IMHO, if they had have just made a native compiler instead of the stupid virtual machine and allowed for manual memory management and some other nice features of C++, Java would have completely superceded C++ by now. Sun being Sun, they stuffed it up and didn't listen to what everyone else was saying, and now it's on the decline.
GCJ is a good project but sadly not at a stage where it can compile a "random" java application.
Agreed.
I was thinking of your list "Perl, Ruby, Lisp, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Scheme and Python"
It's far more cross-platform than Java - so far only one platform can run the majority of Java applications, the JVM, wheras mono compiles.net to native on several platforms.
Uhhhhh, no..NET code is compiled to MSIL instructions (which is platform independant, like Java bytecode). MSIL is just in time compiled to machine code in the CLR (like Java bytecode is just in time compiled to machine code by the Sun VM). Don't forget GCJ which creates machine code directly... Who wants to use Mono anyway? Flogging and dead horses spring to mind.
I wouldn't be suprised is people are paid to write these types of comments, and try and get high moderation.
I can just imagine him sitting in Redmond. He probably fluked the interview for a programmer and turned out to be to too thick to write code, so they reduced his salary and found him something he was actually capable of doing, writing M$-centric trolls on slashdot.
In what way? In the way that for some bizarre reason I can't port to another platform in the future if I want to?
Take the code and try to compile and run it on Linux. Go on.
In the way that they are telling me what I can and can't do in the future?
I'm merely stating the obvious that seems to have escaped your attention.
I think you may be confusing lock-in with making a choice.
I don't think so.
In that way, whatever platform and development language I choose, I will always be 'locked in' according to people who use other products.
No you won't.
It's a stupid point to make.
No it's not.
I don't do what I do based on fitting the problem around the solution, I find a solution for a problem.
This is revolutionary.
.NET fits in with what I need to do infinitely better than any of the other languages you mention.
Not just slightly better but infinitely better.
And this isn't a choice I make based on products being made by specific companies or it being open source, or the cool geek technology buzzword of the month. Ultimately, it's not a choice I make by being a blinkered techie that has no understanding of the peripheral business aspects.
Bully for you. I bet you're really proud of yourself.
Incidentally, I'd compare.NET to J2EE, rather than Java
As I suspect you're not interesting in comparing anything but in making statements like ".NET is infintely better" which makes you look like a complete fool, incidentally.
and maybe point you towards Pythont for.NET and Perl.NET, both of which allow you to write in both languages for the.NET CLR.
Why the fuck would I want to run Python or Perl under the CLR? I have no desire to be locked in like you, thanks very much.
If Sun adds real OOP features like multiple inheritance, operator overloading, traits, mixins, and introduces optional strong or weak dynamical typing
Multiple inheritance is best avoided for clarity (multiple interface inheritance is OK). Operator overloading is rarely useful and often abused. Java is a strongly typed language and this is not going to change ("dynamical typing" doesn't mean anything by the way).
Some of these points are misinformed and you missed out the things that bug people most about Java, the lack of deterministic finalisation and direct memory control, so it looks like your intellect is not superior after all. People who really do have superior intellect do not need to boast about it, it shows through in the things they do and say.
you're kidding me, right? anyone who actually has used Visual Studio will acquiesce that is the best IDE ever conceived. Even the most hardened OS automatons. If by chunks you mean chunks of superiority then yeah you are exactly right.
Either you're trolling or you're very, very mistaken.
I for one prefer mozilla classic suite, with bundled email and composer
Firefox has an easier transition from IE. The menu and toolbar structure is more similar. I don't think it's "dumbed down" as you say, but reorganised and more logical. Also, the download size is smaller.
Dixons are a terrible chain of stores selling overpriced electronic goods
So true, but in the boxing day sale of 2003 I bought from Dixons a Casio QV R40 for £170. This is a fantastic camera for less than I could find it on the net. This is the exception rather than the rule, of course.
Correction: They are intended to fire a/many metal bullets with high pressure.
What's the point of having a gun if it's not to kill or maim or threaten? Is it for recreational use? Part of the interest has to do with the feeling of power possessing and firing a deadly weapon. I don't really see shooting an assailant as being a legitimate use for guns when there are other non-lethal ways to incapacitate a person. Who needs to shoot food nowadays? Is your local supermarket very poorly stocked? Defending yourself against a tyrannical government - that's a good one if you want to get yourself shot and killed by police. Breaking a hard material - oh yes, I'm sure many people use their guns for this. It would be fitting that the bullet ricochets and hits them in the head.
I'm not sure which period you are referring to, but I hardly think possesion of a quarter could be interpreted as intent to supply, you can smoke that in a few days without trying too hard. I've never actually been caught with cannabis so I don't know what would happen, but IME dealers usually have more than a couple of ounces.
Alcohol carries the risk of permanent brain and liver damage and overdose death, which is far from "equally" as cannabis.
My exact words were "alcohol of course can be equally as damaging". You are implying that I said alcohol cannot be more damaging than cannabis, which I didn't.
There are several problems with the research supposedly showing that cannabis use causes psychosis. The most glaring is that many people appear to self-medicate with cannabis. Your friends may have been headed down that road already. Keep in mind that people also develop psychosis without the help of cannabis, and even heavy cannabis users rarely develop mental problems (in fair studies where the normal short-term effects of cannabis are not counted), so cannabis use or non-use is a very poor predictor for psychosis.
No, you're confusing psychosis with a psychotic illness such as schizophrenia. Anyone can suffer from drug-induced psychosis but a predisposition is required to develop a psychotic illness.
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I find it makes quite a nice editor. I had no problems editing XML and CSS. Is there something particular you don't like instead of just saying "it sucks"?
The comments about Java and OOP are misinformed. Do you really expect .NET to ever be cross platform? I wouldn't hold my breath.
Your post is an effective Troll.
Agreed. The GP was touting VS.NET as "superior" which, as you rightly say, is subjective.
TFA is blatantly biased to .NET, it's written on an MSDN blog for goodness sake. It's not what I'd call a fair comparison.
I mod TFA -1 Troll.
Oh, and there are a number of them on comp.linux.advocacy, amongst other places. Blatantly employed by M$.
Some of these points are misinformed and you missed out the things that bug people most about Java, the lack of deterministic finalisation and direct memory control, so it looks like your intellect is not superior after all. People who really do have superior intellect do not need to boast about it, it shows through in the things they do and say.
Okaaaay, so when are you moving your code to Linux? (P.S. you're locked into MS products now)
I call bullshit - since when has
Your sign doesn't compile. Module "sarcasm" not found in library "wit".
.NET does this using a bit of javascript and some page state.
Doctors are trying to cure people, guns are not.
I'm not sure which period you are referring to, but I hardly think possesion of a quarter could be interpreted as intent to supply, you can smoke that in a few days without trying too hard. I've never actually been caught with cannabis so I don't know what would happen, but IME dealers usually have more than a couple of ounces.