I second that most of the programming languages have been developped with a certain area of application in mind.
e.g. C is the classical system programming language, used to code mainly OSes
In prolog you can design expert systems and some AI related things very easily, although it does not very well when used to code a webserver
Java is mainly used for applications nowadays, most often combined with enterprise java beans (ejb) and web frontends, for which it is very well suited. But it is impossible to write an OS for a x86 with it.
Right tool for the right job. You don't use a hammer to cut wood, even if its possible and the result might look awful
Java is no system programming language. So it is not really an option for OS programming. ( It's an interpreter and you can't code an OS without memory access that is)
This was the main concern among fellow students when I learned coding in Java some 6 years ago. But nowadays the execution speed matters rarely in a world of mutliple Ghz's. Maybe the shitty look of the Java GUI's like awt ( is this still in use?) and Swing might be a factor for uncoolness. Most people set cool == looks cool.
I personally like coding in Java since its syntax resemblences C++ and it's semantics is resemblences to smalltalk.
The only thing I miss in Java, and this is why I prefer C or C++, is that there are no pointers or any other means to play with memory directly butsince it's an interpreter there was no reason to implement it anyway, so i am pretty fine with it.
just my 0.02$
They probably will do this soon, but not yet. Well as soon as their patent portfolio covers every standard they ever released and potential competitors can be put out of buisness the old , abusing the law using patent lawyers, way.
Yea, I would like to read code that makes me laugh once again. And some phrases like "What? This did work? No way!" while reading it would be obligatory as well.
Or AA: Guarding Facilities
I remember from my duty that there's nothing as stressful and annoying as guarding a building for a shift of 8 hours, and of course, nothing happens at all during this time. If something happens, you're dead, because you became too bored and didn't pay attention anymore.
The look shiny thing would have happended in every other country as well. I would blame the invention of the televison as the main factor for making spectacles. Prior there was no need for this, because you could only reach a minority of people.
Of course that the nazi regime had the games in 1936 coupled with the rising numbers of television sets in germany made the reports from the olympic games 1936 very extrem and it resulted in the ugly propaganda we know nazi germany for.
Jup.. this is true, they invented the torch and their propaganda machine made the rings well known.
I just wanted to point out that no nazi had something to do with invention of the interlocked rings as the symbol of the (modern) games.
Well your source is obviously unreliable. Not everything that you find in the web is true.
If you click on the link below you will clearly see that the olympic rings have been used as a flag in 1920, that is way before Hitler even made is first attempt to take over germany. http://www.olympic.org/uk/games/past/innovations_u k.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1920 Oh and maybe another way to check facts is using google and cross check the results. http://www.google.com/search?q=olympic+rings Google is your friend, you know..
This is not true..
The olympic rings first appeared in the Paris magazine "Le Bon Marche" in 1913 and it was approved at the Olympic Congress in 1914.
So its a french thing...
I don't think that the IOC is responsible for this. I guess that they are forced to restrict the brands by the sponsors who give them money and forbid the blogs for the networks which pay awesome sums for being able to show the olympic games. Of course they could allow the athletes to drink openly pepsi cola or whatever, but then they would be sued by coca cola and not receive anything. It is once again the corporates fault;)
Money is vital for them, because the organisation and the new buildings every time are rather expensive.
You could reduce the costs if you keep the olympic games always in the same country, but this is not feasible because of national pride reasons. In the USA they didn't even manage to keep it in the same state ( los angeles 1984, atlanta 1996)
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I second that most of the programming languages have been developped with a certain area of application in mind.
e.g. C is the classical system programming language, used to code mainly OSes
In prolog you can design expert systems and some AI related things very easily, although it does not very well when used to code a webserver
Java is mainly used for applications nowadays, most often combined with enterprise java beans (ejb) and web frontends, for which it is very well suited. But it is impossible to write an OS for a x86 with it.
Right tool for the right job. You don't use a hammer to cut wood, even if its possible and the result might look awful
Java is no system programming language. So it is not really an option for OS programming. ( It's an interpreter and you can't code an OS without memory access that is)
This was the main concern among fellow students when I learned coding in Java some 6 years ago. But nowadays the execution speed matters rarely in a world of mutliple Ghz's. Maybe the shitty look of the Java GUI's like awt ( is this still in use?) and Swing might be a factor for uncoolness. Most people set cool == looks cool.
I personally like coding in Java since its syntax resemblences C++ and it's semantics is resemblences to smalltalk.
The only thing I miss in Java, and this is why I prefer C or C++, is that there are no pointers or any other means to play with memory directly butsince it's an interpreter there was no reason to implement it anyway, so i am pretty fine with it.
just my 0.02$
They probably will do this soon, but not yet. Well as soon as their patent portfolio covers every standard they ever released and potential competitors can be put out of buisness the old , abusing the law using patent lawyers, way.
Yea, I would like to read code that makes me laugh once again. And some phrases like "What? This did work? No way!" while reading it would be obligatory as well.
Or AA: Guarding Facilities
I remember from my duty that there's nothing as stressful and annoying as guarding a building for a shift of 8 hours, and of course, nothing happens at all during this time. If something happens, you're dead, because you became too bored and didn't pay attention anymore.
The look shiny thing would have happended in every other country as well. I would blame the invention of the televison as the main factor for making spectacles. Prior there was no need for this, because you could only reach a minority of people. Of course that the nazi regime had the games in 1936 coupled with the rising numbers of television sets in germany made the reports from the olympic games 1936 very extrem and it resulted in the ugly propaganda we know nazi germany for.
Jup.. this is true, they invented the torch and their propaganda machine made the rings well known.
I just wanted to point out that no nazi had something to do with invention of the interlocked rings as the symbol of the (modern) games.
Well your source is obviously unreliable. Not everything that you find in the web is true. If you click on the link below you will clearly see that the olympic rings have been used as a flag in 1920, that is way before Hitler even made is first attempt to take over germany.u k.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1920
http://www.olympic.org/uk/games/past/innovations_
Oh and maybe another way to check facts is using google and cross check the results.
http://www.google.com/search?q=olympic+rings
Google is your friend, you know..
This is not true.. The olympic rings first appeared in the Paris magazine "Le Bon Marche" in 1913 and it was approved at the Olympic Congress in 1914. So its a french thing...
I don't think that the IOC is responsible for this. I guess that they are forced to restrict the brands by the sponsors who give them money and forbid the blogs for the networks which pay awesome sums for being able to show the olympic games. Of course they could allow the athletes to drink openly pepsi cola or whatever, but then they would be sued by coca cola and not receive anything. It is once again the corporates fault ;)
Money is vital for them, because the organisation and the new buildings every time are rather expensive.
You could reduce the costs if you keep the olympic games always in the same country, but this is not feasible because of national pride reasons. In the USA they didn't even manage to keep it in the same state ( los angeles 1984, atlanta 1996)