Exactly. There's little wrong with Javascript that wouldn't be fixed by adding a decent library, since the only things you get string and array classes and a few other bits and bobs. You would need at least a decent I/O library, namespaces and the ability to include other code files.
Since the current purpose is for light scripting of other applications, the lack of namespaces is not really too important. If it was to become a standalone scripting language it would need to have namespaces and some kind of standard library added.
Suppose there is a dead person on the street. Will you search his pockets and take his money under the assumption that "this serves the interests of the shareholders"?... See. There is ethics.
I'm sorry but how exactly does withdrawal of a SOAP API equal mugging dead people in moral terms? That is a seriously fucked up analogy to make and I shall have to conclude that you are not of sound judgment and ignore your views along with the rest of the foaming idiots!
after many, many hours spent working through the confusing and pointless code google created to throw hackers off we finally worked out the url to get search data:
Why didn't you just use ethereal and be done in 5 minutes?
very lightweight browser-plugins - optimized for particular use (media, number crunching, etc.). These browser plugins will help revive Java as a thin-client/web2.0 (3.0?) player in browser-based apps, possibly even making some small inroads against Flash.
Please God no! I really thought we were past all that. It didn't work the first time, we should learn and move on. Leave browser plugins for the likes of flash and shockwave and Java for big server and desktop apps!
One of my predictions is that we will see a shared VM and class library. This would reduce memory usage across multiple applications and remove the VM start-up time from application start-up. If we can get a browser plugin to use that so there is no delay when a page loads, I might be interested:)
For god's sake, Java is just now beginning to get some of the same features as ADO.NET (a disconnected data implementation, for instance).
ADO dot what now? You can build that on top of JDBC if you need it. Most Java programmers are familiar with lower level stuff and don't need all that high-level crap.
From a language perspective, Java's lack of enums, structs, properties, god awful UI support, god awful exception handling model, poor integration with native code libraries, outdated security and versioning mechanisms, limited framework,
What the...? Clearly you haven't a clue what you're talking about.
having to use third party framework bolt ons (see Jakarta, Struts)
Ahh, choice and availability of third-party software. These are Good Things (TM). More the fool you:P
And I say that as a Sun Certified Java Developer
Sorry, but being able to cut and paste a few lines of code from javaranch.com doesn't add any credibility to your post!
it seems unlikely that the marshaling interface is going to have any significant impact
The what now?
The GP is right, using SQL server with.NET is an assload faster than using it with MySql. The drivers are also a fucktonne faster than the OLEDB/ODBC ones they replaced.
Nice troll, but I don't think so. Mac laptops cost around 50% more than the equivalent spec PC laptop when I was looking earlier this year.
Inferior? Yeah, that's why Apple hardware has such an awesome reputation for reliability:D
Of course, if they are GPLing the libraries, then as a Java developer, that means I'll have to start learning C#. Sorry, but I have to make a living, and if I can't make it off of creating Java software, then I'll move to the competitor. GPLing the libraries would be a certain way to kill Java dead.
With that lack of joined up thinking you'll probably be more at home in the M$ camp!
In towns and cities, yes. And it makes people feel safer when there are pickpockets and people who get drunk and violent. Are you saying you don't have cameras in the US or just that you don't see them because they are hidden?
I promise you, the US is the one country I will never revisit. Not because of the people (I married an American, remember) but because of your laws, politics, and I hate to say it, but culture. They all scare they shit out of me. And I'm no coward.
The culture is a big one. There are gun-toting, racist, homophobic white religious extremeists everywhere. I hate to say that any place where this kind of people are accepeted into the upper ranks of society is not a very nice place. People are brainwashed daily by poisonous crap like Fox News, it's no wonder they're scared to go out and get drunk.
let things pass like continuous camera surveillance
Things like cameras are trickled in gradually rather than being introduced in a big bang so perhaps you don't hear people shouting about it as much.
excessive powers to any government instance
Pot. Kettle. You have the world's most powerful monkey boy.
The US on the other has one thing going for it: constitutional protections, and associated with that, pretty good transparency. Whenever there's a new law project that might touch constitutional protections, there's usually some people that will notice, and there's quite a bit more public debate about it. To the point that Europeans probably know more about privacy-related laws in the US than in their own country.
On the whole, you're wrong. You're correct in that we hear plently about british citizens being banged up in Guantanamo against international human rights conventions. Oh they were terrorists were they? Well just because they're brown they must be guilty, right?
"A good start would be a software for Gentoo, which would make the suggestions about compiler options (unless there is one already, haven't tried it in years)."
If you don't know which compiler options you want then it's easy to go and find some sensible ones.
deside optimal compiler options and allow you to select the packages you would like to compile and optimize for better performance
You probably shouldn't be messing around them on a per-package basis unless you know what they do. If you want to change them you can do so, but dumbing down the process of changing them is not necessary.
Given any other general-purpose language and platform (and here I include Perl, Python, and Ruby -- but not PHP), why does the designer's original intent matter one bit?
It doesn't matter per se, but what does matter is when a language becomes too bogged down with features and additions that it hinders further development. Take Perl 6 and Parrot an example, supporting all of Perl 5's features in a new VM is not going to be easy.
The initial goal of what became Java was not to produce a real-time, mission-critical platform with two-phase transactions, high-volume messaging and queueing, and whatever other enterprisey buzzwords win the measuring contest this week. Yet Java grew out of that niche
To be fair, the uptake of Java grew out of that niche but the language remained fairly true to its original design throughout.
We wrote with goose-quill pens and had to keep ink bottles under our clothing to stop it from freezing.
Quill pens? You had quill pens? In my day we had use sticks to draw in frozen cow shit, at the same time as fighting off packs of ravenous wolves, tigers and hyenas with nothing but our bare hands.
I would just have two consoles open and hit alt-tab, "make", enter. It's probably about the same as reaching for your mouse and clicking a button. Surely you can just hit f5 in VC, though?
Only on Slashdot can someone ask a sensible question about development tools and hordes of rabid nerds spin off hundreds of posts debating the merits of various religions. I wish I could mod you all offtopic and redundant;)
So not only is everyone a criminal but, most people are also felons as well?
And this is the "land of the free"?
And who said Americans don't understand irony?;)
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Exactly. There's little wrong with Javascript that wouldn't be fixed by adding a decent library, since the only things you get string and array classes and a few other bits and bobs. You would need at least a decent I/O library, namespaces and the ability to include other code files.
Since the current purpose is for light scripting of other applications, the lack of namespaces is not really too important. If it was to become a standalone scripting language it would need to have namespaces and some kind of standard library added.
One of my predictions is that we will see a shared VM and class library. This would reduce memory usage across multiple applications and remove the VM start-up time from application start-up. If we can get a browser plugin to use that so there is no delay when a page loads, I might be interested
The GP is right, using SQL server with
Actually I just installed Linux and quadruplified my productivity.
Nice troll, but I don't think so. Mac laptops cost around 50% more than the equivalent spec PC laptop when I was looking earlier this year. Inferior? Yeah, that's why Apple hardware has such an awesome reputation for reliability :D
If you don't know which compiler options you want then it's easy to go and find some sensible ones.
You probably shouldn't be messing around them on a per-package basis unless you know what they do. If you want to change them you can do so, but dumbing down the process of changing them is not necessary.
To be fair, the uptake of Java grew out of that niche but the language remained fairly true to its original design throughout.
I would just have two consoles open and hit alt-tab, "make", enter. It's probably about the same as reaching for your mouse and clicking a button. Surely you can just hit f5 in VC, though?
FWIW, atheism and vi
So not only is everyone a criminal but, most people are also felons as well? ;)
And this is the "land of the free"?
And who said Americans don't understand irony?
"Apple is dead! Long live Apple!" the fanboys could be heard chanting in the streets ;)