You're right, it does seem they're just defending the trademark as required by law to keep it.
However, I'm really surprised they've not used humor to leverage the popularity of the term to sell their product. Jack-in-the-box would've jumped on this years ago. It seems Hormel are suffering from a lack of imagination.
Agreed. Also, you can learn a lot from java. I don't write in java anymore, but learning the language greatly improved my C code (which is 95% of what I write) I avoid typedefs, nothing is more aggravating than figuring out if somebody else's typedef is a struct, a struct *, or a native type.
The benefit of java is, there is only one way to write everything. Thus, you can read anyone's code because they haven't wandered into their own "dialect" of the language. C++ is horribly abused in this way, where people tend to write their own language, simple aritmetic operations can expand into gazillions of execution cycles (image = file * matrix)
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You're right, it does seem they're just defending the trademark as required by law to keep it. However, I'm really surprised they've not used humor to leverage the popularity of the term to sell their product. Jack-in-the-box would've jumped on this years ago. It seems Hormel are suffering from a lack of imagination.
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Agreed. Also, you can learn a lot from java. I don't write in java anymore, but learning the language greatly improved my C code (which is 95% of what I write) I avoid typedefs, nothing is more aggravating than figuring out if somebody else's typedef is a struct, a struct *, or a native type. The benefit of java is, there is only one way to write everything. Thus, you can read anyone's code because they haven't wandered into their own "dialect" of the language. C++ is horribly abused in this way, where people tend to write their own language, simple aritmetic operations can expand into gazillions of execution cycles (image = file * matrix)