Sorry, but you will be proven wrong. Well - actually - that already happened.:-)
C++ (past), Java (present) and Python (future) were, are and will be successful for good reasons.
And those reasons are the exact same you bash them for - the language comes (increasingly) with proper plumbing.
I learned OOP concepts from reading that very same Smalltalk/80 book. Still have it. It's great. But Smalltalk was simply too far ahead of it's time and has since been .
And Java and Python beat the crap out of C and even C++ for the same reason you don't like them: They come with std libraries that make us more productive (and C++ should have had that. If C++ had a better and more complete std library there might never have been a Java).
I even like C still - and yes for the same reasons you cite. But a language by itself is close to worthless if you have to write the same silly old stuff again and again - or get used to the umpteenth new variation that the next shop uses for a container lib or GUI framework.
Java and Python let you learn a set of std libs once and then let's you concentrate on the problem to be solved - instead of spending a large portion of your time on protocols, gui and other infrastructure.
BTW - I don't see any "cacophony of discord" in C++. Great language. Too bad it came without proper frameworks when it needed them.
And while K&R C might need a couple pages less to describe than ANSI C - please, please don't make me go back to a C compiler that doesn't understand ANSI C. That's just cruel.
There is nothing wrong with the Google results page.
Sure they have ads - at the opposite end of the page with a delimiting line and clearly marked as sponsored.
While sponsor can have other meanings, none of them mean "search results" and on the whole the context makes it quite clear that they are indeed paid ads.
I certainly would hate to see the nicely minimal Google pages cluttered by needless legal mumbo jumbo about the ads on the right side being ads and explain on every page what a page rank is.
Anybody who wants to know how Google works can find out easily enough:
Just put "how google works" in Google and read all about it. It's not a secret. Of course it's not "best results" (how would that be determined - mind reading?) - just most connected. But it's the closest we currently get to best in an autmated way (if somebody has a better way - create a new search engine company and get rich).
As long as Google is not selling page rank (AFAIK they don't - unlike others) and doesn't mix the ads within the search results on the left side, there is no problem and your suggestions only would make the page more cluttered and less readable.
Well, changing the text from "Sponsored links" to "Paid Advertising" is no trouble, but doesn't make much difference either. Did anybody read "sponsored" as something other than paid for?
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Sorry, but you will be proven wrong. Well - actually - that already happened. :-)
C++ (past), Java (present) and Python (future) were, are and will be successful for good reasons.
And those reasons are the exact same you bash them for - the language comes (increasingly) with proper plumbing.
I learned OOP concepts from reading that very same Smalltalk/80 book. Still have it. It's great. But Smalltalk was simply too far ahead of it's time and has since been .
And Java and Python beat the crap out of C and even C++ for the same reason you don't like them: They come with std libraries that make us more productive (and C++ should have had that. If C++ had a better and more complete std library there might never have been a Java).
I even like C still - and yes for the same reasons you cite. But a language by itself is close to worthless if you have to write the same silly old stuff again and again - or get used to the umpteenth new variation that the next shop uses for a container lib or GUI framework.
Java and Python let you learn a set of std libs once and then let's you concentrate on the problem to be solved - instead of spending a large portion of your time on protocols, gui and other infrastructure.
BTW - I don't see any "cacophony of discord" in C++. Great language. Too bad it came without proper frameworks when it needed them.
And while K&R C might need a couple pages less to describe than ANSI C - please, please don't make me go back to a C compiler that doesn't understand ANSI C. That's just cruel.
You mean like Ctrl-k or a simple click?
To clear out: Ctrl-k, Backspace.
That's dificult?
There is nothing wrong with the Google results page.
Sure they have ads - at the opposite end of the page with a delimiting line and clearly marked as sponsored.
While sponsor can have other meanings, none of them mean "search results" and on the whole the context makes it quite clear that they are indeed paid ads.
I certainly would hate to see the nicely minimal Google pages cluttered by needless legal mumbo jumbo about the ads on the right side being ads and explain on every page what a page rank is.
Anybody who wants to know how Google works can find out easily enough: Just put "how google works" in Google and read all about it. It's not a secret. Of course it's not "best results" (how would that be determined - mind reading?) - just most connected. But it's the closest we currently get to best in an autmated way (if somebody has a better way - create a new search engine company and get rich).
As long as Google is not selling page rank (AFAIK they don't - unlike others) and doesn't mix the ads within the search results on the left side, there is no problem and your suggestions only would make the page more cluttered and less readable.
Well, changing the text from "Sponsored links" to "Paid Advertising" is no trouble, but doesn't make much difference either. Did anybody read "sponsored" as something other than paid for?