Earlier this year Ada even went into it's third incarnation now called Ada 2005 (ok, it took a bit longer to ion out all the ruff edges from the new standart):
That's because OO languages like C++ and Jave relay on there standard libraries for high abstraction - even in C you would use a library function (memset).
The Ada the solution the the above problem is:
As : String (1.. 10000):= (other => 'a');
A programmer which has learned Ada as first language will look for an more elegant solution the a for loop when forced to use a lesser language and might in fact find "StringBuilder" on there quest.
If someone has actually stopped caring about the evolution of Computer Science then it's you - otherwise you would have known that the newest Ada is Ada 2005 and not Ada 83. Have a look for yourself:
The NAVI even created there own Ada compiler in open source (OK they had the NYU to help them). Today the compiler is part of the main GCC distribution.
The very same thing happened in germany as well. Even today several years after the switch over not all TV sold have DVB-T build in.
In fact most TV have multi system analog receivers which will work anywhere in the world - I guess there is just one production line for the whole world and the producers don't care that the receiver is not all that usefull in some countries.
Ok you can still use the analog receiver for analog cable TV - but that is not very helpfull either since DVB-T has almost as many channels as analog cable TV. That's why my Father terminated his cable TV subscription. DVB-T gives him all he needs.
Wow - in germany we did the switch over several years ago. What is it with the US? I thought you are at the forefront of technologie. But no:
Your mobile phone are so far behind time that you think the iPhone is God's gift to mankind. You think that 35 mpg is an impossible to meet target for fuel economy - in 12 years that is. And now: your TV system is several years behind as well.
No not forefront at all - hobbeling behind is more like it.
Or resurection - DVB-T supports a lot more channels then analog tv - in germany where the swich over happened a few years ago many consumers terminated there cable tv subscription because they could get the 20 channels they are interested in via DVB-T.
Interesting - especially when one consideres that Britain has gone metric about 10 years ago - petrol is now sold by the litre. The pint of beer and road speed limits are the only imperial measures still in use.
Actually in europe we work on 3 l/100km cars and Volkswagen has one on sale. On Wikipedia [1] that's actualy off the chart - which ends at 4 l/100km / 70mpg.
I would say that the millions spent on automotive R&D go to Fort Europe and Saab/Vauxhall/Opel (the european branches of GM).
much more fuel efficient autos made everywhere else.... by the very same companies that is. Or do you think Fort Europe hasn't got 8 l/100km cars on offer. Sure they have.
Only.com is dedicated "Commercial entities (worldwide)". See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.com. But still good to know it did not show up on national google sites.
1) When have you last used http://www.google.us? I ask because.com is dedicated "Commercial entities (worldwide)".
2) True, but I read "U.S. holiday" all over the place and this does produce some anger. And on the winning side as well - Nothing pisses the brits or rushians more off as when US tells the world they saved the day.
Because I am not a citicen of the US. Of course I don't case what google shows on http://www.google.us/ [1] but if the logo appears on http://www.google.de/ or http://www.google.ch/ I am pretty pissed (which day is it actually? - so I can check). I predict they get flamed big time if the logo shows on http://www.google.ru/ - the russians won't like it at all.
And then - last not least is http://www.google.com/ - which is [2] "Commercial entities (worldwide)" - notice the worldwide here?
And as such I do not aggee with fancies for some national holiday of importance to only 5% world population. Unless it would show only on www.google.us [1] - that would be ok.
And there is no upper limit? No, there must be otherwise you could give 10 years notice and you could not be layed off without beeing payed for the full 10 years.
Or even better: give notice to your 65th birthday and have a job for live!
Shure my company will give me notice. I fact I will get 3 month notice. But then I work for the Post in Switzerland - a company which cares about there employees.
As I mentioned in my other post it's part of your contract here and for office and IT workers it is often a lot more then the law requires. And for the reason that two week are not enough to hand over all your work.
I find this whole discussion rather stange and disturbing. Live in the US is different indeed.
Leaving on the spot - ghosting - I'll be sued for damages if I did that. The same way I would sue my company if they layed me off with out the contracted notice.
Martin
PS: Terminating a work contract without notice is of course possible in exceptional circumstances - which usualy involve unlawfull activities of one of the contract members. Of if both parties aggree in "harmony".
Because in all european contries I lived and worked notice period is part of your contract. Usally symetric - otherwise the contract might me considerd unfair and exploiting.
And if you leave on the spot - without a very good reason - you might, no most likely you will be sued for damages. You gave your employer no change to find a replacement, you did not hand over your work to the person which is going to replace you.
You might still be escorted out - but then it would be a golden handshake as the company would still have to pay for the full notice period. And that - kind of - compensates for the insult.
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But you have been missing that those proffessors are also the managing directors of AdaCore [1]. 6 figure salary - sure if not 7.
Before you call "cheating" remember the intended audience for the original article.
Martin
[1] http://www.adacore.com/
Earlier this year Ada even went into it's third incarnation now called Ada 2005 (ok, it took a bit longer to ion out all the ruff edges from the new standart):
http://www.adaic.com/standards/05rm/html/RM-TTL.html
Martin
Just to point it out to you: Ada is an OO language and has Pascal like Syntax. See:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Object_Orientation
Martin
That's because OO languages like C++ and Jave relay on there standard libraries for high abstraction - even in C you would use a library function (memset).
.. 10000) := (other => 'a');
The Ada the solution the the above problem is:
As : String (1
A programmer which has learned Ada as first language will look for an more elegant solution the a for loop when forced to use a lesser language and might in fact find "StringBuilder" on there quest.
Martin
If someone has actually stopped caring about the evolution of Computer Science then it's you - otherwise you would have known that the newest Ada is Ada 2005 and not Ada 83. Have a look for yourself:
http://www.adaic.com/standards/05rm/html/RM-TTL.html
There is nothing Java (as a language) has what Ada 2005 hasn't got as well - but a lot what Java hasn't got but Ada does.
Martin
The NAVI even created there own Ada compiler in open source (OK they had the NYU to help them). Today the compiler is part of the main GCC distribution.
Martin
I have seen the opposite (US is not the first country to switch): My Father terminated his cable TV and went to all DVB-T instead.
Martin
The very same thing happened in germany as well. Even today several years after the switch over not all TV sold have DVB-T build in.
In fact most TV have multi system analog receivers which will work anywhere in the world - I guess there is just one production line for the whole world and the producers don't care that the receiver is not all that usefull in some countries.
Ok you can still use the analog receiver for analog cable TV - but that is not very helpfull either since DVB-T has almost as many channels as analog cable TV. That's why my Father terminated his cable TV subscription. DVB-T gives him all he needs.
Martin
Wow - in germany we did the switch over several years ago. What is it with the US? I thought you are at the forefront of technologie. But no:
Your mobile phone are so far behind time that you think the iPhone is God's gift to mankind.
You think that 35 mpg is an impossible to meet target for fuel economy - in 12 years that is.
And now: your TV system is several years behind as well.
No not forefront at all - hobbeling behind is more like it.
Martin
Or resurection - DVB-T supports a lot more channels then analog tv - in germany where the swich over happened a few years ago many consumers terminated there cable tv subscription because they could get the 20 channels they are interested in via DVB-T.
Martin
Interesting - especially when one consideres that Britain has gone metric about 10 years ago - petrol is now sold by the litre. The pint of beer and road speed limits are the only imperial measures still in use.
Martin
Actually in europe we work on 3 l/100km cars and Volkswagen has one on sale. On Wikipedia [1] that's actualy off the chart - which ends at 4 l/100km / 70mpg.
I would say that the millions spent on automotive R&D go to Fort Europe and Saab/Vauxhall/Opel (the european branches of GM).
Martin
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Chart_MPG_to_Litre-100km.svg
much more fuel efficient autos made everywhere else. ... by the very same companies that is. Or do you think Fort Europe hasn't got 8 l/100km cars on offer. Sure they have.
Martin
What I realy find strange is that the eropean Ford and GM (called Opel and Vaxhall here) factories produce cars which meed those requronment at ease.
Look at here adverts in the UK:
http://www.vauxhall.co.uk/
http://www.ford.co.uk/
Martin
You forgot that men have a higher tendency to mate with more then one women - and women have a higher tendency to accept that.
The is a nice study on some birds. All birds live in pair bonding and looked well - until genetic parental test came into play:
30% of the male are father to 70% of the childreen. A 70% of male birds where raising childreen which where not there own.
I fear it is not that different with humans - after all there must be a reason the german goverment fears uncontroled genetic parental tests so much.
Martin
Only .com is dedicated "Commercial entities (worldwide)". See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.com. But still good to know it did not show up on national google sites.
Martin
Suggested reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samhain. It's just sad what the US made out of it.
Martin
1) When have you last used http://www.google.us? I ask because .com is dedicated "Commercial entities (worldwide)".
2) True, but I read "U.S. holiday" all over the place and this does produce some anger. And on the winning side as well - Nothing pisses the brits or rushians more off as when US tells the world they saved the day.
Martin
Because I am not a citicen of the US. Of course I don't case what google shows on http://www.google.us/ [1] but if the logo appears on http://www.google.de/ or http://www.google.ch/ I am pretty pissed (which day is it actually? - so I can check). I predict they get flamed big time if the logo shows on http://www.google.ru/ - the russians won't like it at all.
And then - last not least is http://www.google.com/ - which is [2] "Commercial entities (worldwide)" - notice the worldwide here?
Martin
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.us
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.com
http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/address.html
And as such I do not aggee with fancies for some national holiday of importance to only 5% world population. Unless it would show only on www.google.us [1] - that would be ok.
Martin
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.us
And there is no upper limit? No, there must be otherwise you could give 10 years notice and you could not be layed off without beeing payed for the full 10 years.
Or even better: give notice to your 65th birthday and have a job for live!
Martin
Shure my company will give me notice. I fact I will get 3 month notice. But then I work for the Post in Switzerland - a company which cares about there employees.
Martin
I agree with you - yet I can see the other point as well - there are 100+ message and you want to get noticed...
And he was successfull - you and me - we both read the post.
Martin
As I mentioned in my other post it's part of your contract here and for office and IT workers it is often a lot more then the law requires. And for the reason that two week are not enough to hand over all your work.
I find this whole discussion rather stange and disturbing. Live in the US is different indeed.
Leaving on the spot - ghosting - I'll be sued for damages if I did that. The same way I would sue my company if they layed me off with out the contracted notice.
Martin
PS: Terminating a work contract without notice is of course possible in exceptional circumstances - which usualy involve unlawfull activities of one of the contract members. Of if both parties aggree in "harmony".
Because in all european contries I lived and worked notice period is part of your contract. Usally symetric - otherwise the contract might me considerd unfair and exploiting.
And if you leave on the spot - without a very good reason - you might, no most likely you will be sued for damages. You gave your employer no change to find a replacement, you did not hand over your work to the person which is going to replace you.
You might still be escorted out - but then it would be a golden handshake as the company would still have to pay for the full notice period. And that - kind of - compensates for the insult.
Martin