Are you doing new development or maintaining an already large code base?
For new development I would suggest looking at Cyclone, which adds static analysis (in the form of type checking) to the language itself.
I don't usually spend my time playing solitaire, but I today I'm gonna play a couple games. It's just my own silly little way of telling Mr. Goldberg to go to hell.
Theater managers cannot distinguish between good and bad stealing. Apparently, they can't distinguish between stealing and copyright infringement either. Considering that the movie theater doesn't even hold the rights to the film in the first place, they are being rather conceited.
Disclaimer: This is exactly what my company does, so I am by no means impartial...
This is called application portfolio management (APM). As other people have said in the thread, it basically involves mapping the applications and their dependencies onto a graph. Then you can use the graph to build reports, perform searches, visualize the structure, etc. The company I work for (http://www.metallect.com/) does exactly this, and the website has much more info about it.
Symbolics was a company that produced Lisp machines. These had special hardware that implemented Lisp, there was no interpreter. And just to let you know, the operating system was called Genera. Of course, Wikipedia is a good resource for more information. Probably, the best page is the one for Lisp Machine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine
Well, this is partly a self-serving post because one of the systems is my own, but there are at least three separate lisp operating systems available for x86 architectures. However, none of these systems has grown past the proof-of-concept stage (yet).
The first such system is Movitz (http://common-lisp.net/project/movitz/). This one is based on common lisp and even has an emacs clone running on it (http://www.emmett.ca/~sabetts/).
The second is DrScheme (http://www.drscheme.org/) which has been ported to run on bare hardware.
Finally, there is my project (http://losak.sf.net) which is aimed towards keeping everything as simple as possible, but is also the least functional of the three options.
On a side note, one of the biggest lessons I have learned from working on the system is that interpreting code is far too slow for operating systems. A kernel really needs to be compiled. Of course, this does not have any affect on the language used. Any language can either be interpreted or compiled.
I've never used any of those languages, nor do I forsee the need to.
Please do take a look at them, even if you never write anything in those languages that you get paid for (you probably won't). Those languages are very different from the ones you already know, especially Prolog. The important thing is not to learn the syntax or idiosyncrasies of the languages, but rather the programming styles that they emphasize. Those styles are nothing like the programming style promoted by VB and Java. Learning these styles stretch your mind, and make you a better programmer in general, even when using VB or Java.
As a concrete example, the use of continuations might never occur to someone who just knows VB or Java, but they make writing compilers surprisingly simple and the generated code extremely efficient.
IE isn't relevant to this topic actually. The article linked to is not about printing on the screen but actually printing to paper. They use CSS to produce a PDF document of the XML file, which can be printed as a book. The authors even say that they've already done this for their book Cascading Stylesheets, designing for the web
The only potential similarity that I saw in the article to Y2K was the example of a satellite failing. In that case all of the devices communicating with the satellite would fail, at the same time.
Of course even this could be handled by having redundant communication links, but satellites are expensive to replace.
Hmmm.....seems to me that they're assuming an available pool of 100 Quintillion or so programmers...Google had better check its math!
They assume there is a googolplex.
Except that this joke doesn't work for international calls (which is what the thread is about). The reliability that you say you are paying for is simply not there for alot of countries that someone might want to call. For instance my dad works in Saudi Arabia, and the quality of calls to his phone is not as good as calls that he makes from his computer.
I didn't actually take a stance on the (im)morality of copyright violation in my previous post. I didn't say "just _a_ simple copyright violation" but rather "just simple copyright violation", meaning not only copyright violation.
One of the issues that concerned the poster was that the copycat site might show up (early) on search engine results. The probability of this would greatly increase if links were posted to it by people trying to bring the site down. As such, a/.ing might have wound up increasing the damage caused by the copycat site.
I know that a lot of people are going to compare this with suprnova/etc to support their stance on copyright law. Rather than take a side right now I would just like to point out that this is not just simple copyright violation. The site in question was also committing fraud and trademark violation, both of which are separate issues in addition to the copyright violation.
What else do you want an OS to do? If an OS can reliably enable the modern application layer, to me it has satisfied the criteria of an OS.
I think of operating systems as being special cases of programming languages. The environment that programs run in is the language and the operating system that implements that environment is the language interpreter.
When you view it from this perspective, Unix (And every single other major operating system) is an interpreted language. The obvious improvement then would be to create a "compiler" for that language. This could be implemented with a partial evaluator. Run the partial evaluator on the operating system with the programs that you want compiled in passed as parameters, and you get back an operating system that has your programs built into it.
Since this doesn't violate the seperation between the OS and application layers, it SHOULD have the security/stability of a microkernel operating system. At the same time, because the applications are compiled into the operating system, you should have the performance of a monolithic kernel operating system.
The problem with this idea though (when applied to Unix) is that partial evaluators for assembly language are hell to write. An operating system written in a higher level language (LISP, Haskell, ML, Prolog, etc) would have an easier time of providing this.
Why a haptic interface? The thing doesn't have to have a massive number of motions to be useful. I'd think that a more videogame-controller like interface could be sufficient. Such an interface wouldn't need the cockpit to be so large.
Why does the usefulness of a mecha have to be limited to war? Seriously, I think the guy's idea of using it at motor rallies is pretty good. It's also cost effective when you consider the price he's paying for it compared to the long term number of tickets that he'll sale. Also, when the technology advances enough some things like this could be very useful on construction sites. It could have the strength of a crane (a small one anyway), but be much more manuverable and versatile.
No, the Darpa project is completely seperate. Darpa is sponsoring a Berkeley project which already has working legs and can carry oversized packs. For an image of the Darpa-funded, Berkeley project go to here
It depends on the city. In a large, sprawling area it would be too sparse (never a bike nearby when you want one). However, in a more densely populated area (like maybe a college town) I could see it working.
I have to wonder if a "n00b" would care about internet explorer. Someone that really has no experience with computers would not have any commitment to IE, so they should not ever miss it. Especially when most people seem to consider Firefox as being far superior to it.
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Are you doing new development or maintaining an already large code base? For new development I would suggest looking at Cyclone, which adds static analysis (in the form of type checking) to the language itself.
I don't usually spend my time playing solitaire, but I today I'm gonna play a couple games. It's just my own silly little way of telling Mr. Goldberg to go to hell.
Disclaimer: This is exactly what my company does, so I am by no means impartial...
This is called application portfolio management (APM). As other people have said in the thread, it basically involves mapping the applications and their dependencies onto a graph. Then you can use the graph to build reports, perform searches, visualize the structure, etc. The company I work for (http://www.metallect.com/) does exactly this, and the website has much more info about it.
Besides, the last remaining member of the sole Japanese Literary Club left in Japan was assimilated by Haruhi Suzumiya anyway...
Yeah, and she wasn't even from Japan :-)
Symbolics was a company that produced Lisp machines. These had special hardware that implemented Lisp, there was no interpreter. And just to let you know, the operating system was called Genera. Of course, Wikipedia is a good resource for more information. Probably, the best page is the one for Lisp Machine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine
Well, this is partly a self-serving post because one of the systems is my own, but there are at least three separate lisp operating systems available for x86 architectures. However, none of these systems has grown past the proof-of-concept stage (yet).
The first such system is Movitz (http://common-lisp.net/project/movitz/). This one is based on common lisp and even has an emacs clone running on it (http://www.emmett.ca/~sabetts/).
The second is DrScheme (http://www.drscheme.org/) which has been ported to run on bare hardware.
Finally, there is my project (http://losak.sf.net) which is aimed towards keeping everything as simple as possible, but is also the least functional of the three options.
On a side note, one of the biggest lessons I have learned from working on the system is that interpreting code is far too slow for operating systems. A kernel really needs to be compiled. Of course, this does not have any affect on the language used. Any language can either be interpreted or compiled.
All they need to do now is prove the health benefits of beer and my life will be complete
Beer has indirect benefits in that it gives you strong urges to fight cancer
Please do take a look at them, even if you never write anything in those languages that you get paid for (you probably won't). Those languages are very different from the ones you already know, especially Prolog. The important thing is not to learn the syntax or idiosyncrasies of the languages, but rather the programming styles that they emphasize. Those styles are nothing like the programming style promoted by VB and Java. Learning these styles stretch your mind, and make you a better programmer in general, even when using VB or Java.
As a concrete example, the use of continuations might never occur to someone who just knows VB or Java, but they make writing compilers surprisingly simple and the generated code extremely efficient.
IE isn't relevant to this topic actually. The article linked to is not about printing on the screen but actually printing to paper. They use CSS to produce a PDF document of the XML file, which can be printed as a book. The authors even say that they've already done this for their book Cascading Stylesheets, designing for the web
Don't forget Nokia's response http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2004-11 -26
The only potential similarity that I saw in the article to Y2K was the example of a satellite failing. In that case all of the devices communicating with the satellite would fail, at the same time.
Of course even this could be handled by having redundant communication links, but satellites are expensive to replace.
Hmmm.....seems to me that they're assuming an available pool of 100 Quintillion or so programmers...Google had better check its math!
They assume there is a googolplex.
Except that this joke doesn't work for international calls (which is what the thread is about). The reliability that you say you are paying for is simply not there for alot of countries that someone might want to call. For instance my dad works in Saudi Arabia, and the quality of calls to his phone is not as good as calls that he makes from his computer.
I didn't actually take a stance on the (im)morality of copyright violation in my previous post. I didn't say "just _a_ simple copyright violation" but rather "just simple copyright violation", meaning not only copyright violation.
One of the issues that concerned the poster was that the copycat site might show up (early) on search engine results. The probability of this would greatly increase if links were posted to it by people trying to bring the site down. As such, a /.ing might have wound up increasing the damage caused by the copycat site.
I know that a lot of people are going to compare this with suprnova/etc to support their stance on copyright law. Rather than take a side right now I would just like to point out that this is not just simple copyright violation. The site in question was also committing fraud and trademark violation, both of which are separate issues in addition to the copyright violation.
I think of operating systems as being special cases of programming languages. The environment that programs run in is the language and the operating system that implements that environment is the language interpreter.
When you view it from this perspective, Unix (And every single other major operating system) is an interpreted language. The obvious improvement then would be to create a "compiler" for that language. This could be implemented with a partial evaluator. Run the partial evaluator on the operating system with the programs that you want compiled in passed as parameters, and you get back an operating system that has your programs built into it.
Since this doesn't violate the seperation between the OS and application layers, it SHOULD have the security/stability of a microkernel operating system. At the same time, because the applications are compiled into the operating system, you should have the performance of a monolithic kernel operating system.
The problem with this idea though (when applied to Unix) is that partial evaluators for assembly language are hell to write. An operating system written in a higher level language (LISP, Haskell, ML, Prolog, etc) would have an easier time of providing this.
Why a haptic interface? The thing doesn't have to have a massive number of motions to be useful. I'd think that a more videogame-controller like interface could be sufficient. Such an interface wouldn't need the cockpit to be so large.
Why does the usefulness of a mecha have to be limited to war? Seriously, I think the guy's idea of using it at motor rallies is pretty good. It's also cost effective when you consider the price he's paying for it compared to the long term number of tickets that he'll sale. Also, when the technology advances enough some things like this could be very useful on construction sites. It could have the strength of a crane (a small one anyway), but be much more manuverable and versatile.
No, the Darpa project is completely seperate. Darpa is sponsoring a Berkeley project which already has working legs and can carry oversized packs. For an image of the Darpa-funded, Berkeley project go to here
It depends on the city. In a large, sprawling area it would be too sparse (never a bike nearby when you want one). However, in a more densely populated area (like maybe a college town) I could see it working.
I have to wonder if a "n00b" would care about internet explorer. Someone that really has no experience with computers would not have any commitment to IE, so they should not ever miss it. Especially when most people seem to consider Firefox as being far superior to it.