For most languages, except those that have been made intentionaly difficult to read, it is just a matter of experience whether the language is easy to read or not.
Having written plenty of shell scripts, I can assure you this is not the case. I'd rather read C++ code I wrote four years ago than a shell script I wrote yesterday.
But to add a little more content, one thing I'd like to see in an editor is syntax-coloring of *matching* parentheses. I think that could help C++ and Lisp code reading.
Objective C is the primary development language for Mac OS X
That's as maybe, but I work on one a reasonably well-known Mac program, and we're sticking with C++ and the Carbon interface. Anyone who has a cross-platform app almost certainly isn't switching, and I suspect the rest aren't particularly hankering for a major rewrite.
There are two ways to do this. One way is to tackle the whole industry at once.
Another way is to build on the industry's current state, rather than change it whole-hog. C++ was essentially a superset of C, and Java didn't stray that far from C++.
So is the original article, which is really terrible. Thirty minutes to go halfway around the world? There's all the clue you need that the author is clueless.
The author said 30 minutes going from Sydney to Melbourne, which is far from going halfway around the world.
You will find that most of the bad features of America started right when God was removed from schools.
Oh, you mean like the civil rights movement? Please. It's a whole bunch of bull---- that we're somehow less "nice" than people were before. I have Jewish relatives who are old enough to remember when they weren't allowed to join various country clubs, when hotels had signs that said "No dogs, no Jews". Remember the St. Louis? Filled with Jewish refugees, the U.S. and others refused to allow it to dock, and many of the passengers went back to perish in the Holocaust. And the U.S. refused to bomb the concentration camps at the request of Jewish leaders, claiming they were out of range. Only problem wit that excuse is, they actually did bomb (Auschwitz?) by accident, it was well within range. And it's not the modern-day South that let Medgar Evers and the like go free. Face it, human beings are depressingly human, and the Bible didn't prevent people from owning slaves, didn't stop the Trail of Tears or Wounded Knee, and so on and horribly so on.
Modern statist liberalism revolves around an all-powerful government that interferes in your daily affairs, taxes you to within an inch of your life, etc.
As opposed to modern conservatism, which interferes with who you can choose as your next of kin, which drugs you can use, borrows in your name to within an inch of your life, empowers corporations over individuals, etc.
If I'm going to import anime, I don't want to have to import a new DVD player as well.
I've heard that a lot of anime is not region-locked; you might want to investigate on some of the websites devoted to anime, they'll almost certainly have more info.
This is the absolute truth. In civil law, the defendant does not have near as many protections as they do under criminal law.
A rather noteworthy case of this, by the way, was the lawsuit against Bill Clinton. He lied about Lewinsky because he had no Fifth Amendment protections. About your only alternative in such a situation (aside from admitting you had an affair, even though it had no real bearing on the case at hand) is risking contempt charges.
I've had Comcast@Home for two years now. I had a period of poor connections, which they first tried to fix with a replacement modem and then on a second visit discovered was too much splitting and an attenuated signal. But the service was reasonably polite, the people were on time, etc.; hold time might have been a bit long. But in general I have n o complaints.
I see it as fundamentally no different than requiring ingredients labels on food packaging.
Ingredients labels are there for people with food allergies. Despite occasional claims, I am not in fact allergic to gotos or uncommented code. Are you?
His point was that the ability to use your IP to subjugate your users isn't an inappropriate power to have.
Sod off. I mean it. My company's users bought our software of their own free will, judging the licensing of our software to be worth more than the cash they gave us. Anyone who calls that subjugation needs a few whacks with a cluestick.
True hypocrisy? It was A-OK for the FSF to use proprietary software to achieve their goals from 1984 to the early 1990's, but it's not OK for you to use them for your (unrelated to free software) goals, no matter how noble.
C/C++ programmers are generally so much in love with the language that they are virtually blind for its disadvantages and ignore/dismiss competing languages
It's not just the language. For all the advantages of Lisp, Haskell, Eiffel, Sather, et al, there's nothing like the community and spread of C/C++. With C, I can work on the Linux kernel, Gnome, et al. C++ adds KDE, Mozilla, yadda yadda. What would I do with a "better" language? For all their warts, C and C++ are the lingua franca of programming, and trying to push other languages is rather like being a fan of Esperanto.
It does reach the non-Slashdot crowd
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My wife read this article without my prompting, passed it to me with a deeply concerned look and said, "Have you heard about this?" (Relatively) mainstream America doesn't like this kind of crap either when they hear about it.
I know she lost her job, but she couldn't do it anymore. Footballers who get old get layed off, models who lose their looks loose their jobs, typists who can't type loose their jobs... life sucks, get over it.
Getting old happens with or without playing football. Footballers are usually insured to cover career-ending knee injuries, so if the job does cause the injury, they have a form of disability coverage. A model who lost her looks due to age isn't covered, that happens regardless of the job. A model who loses her looks in a bizarre cosmetics accident can sue and get recompense for a career-ending mascara injury. Policemen shot and disabled on the job get lifetime pensions.
In this case, the injury was caused by years of typing at work. So why shouldn't she be recompensed like anyone else disabled by on-the-job injuries?
The story about how Mexico was going to deploy Linux in all their schools everywhere...
Followed up a year later by another story stating that never happened because Linux was too hard to use.
That wasn't it at all. The primary problem mentioned was the inability to get drivers for their "winmodems." Nothing about Linux being inherently hard to use.
I'm pretty sure I found one with a 12.1" screen for comparison purposes.
Dell's site doesn't list Inspiron 4000s with anything other than 14.1" screens, the only choice being different resolutions. I can't rule out there being an earlier model also called 4000, but neoseeker's review links refer to slower processors but no smaller screens.
The iBook has a 12.1" screen, the Inspiron 4000 a 14.1". At the very least, screen size should be part of your comparison. Including weight would also be good, the iBook does pretty well there. (If you're going to maintain this, adding max memory would also be smart.)
So Apple is not quite there yet on price, but they are getting closer with the portables.
Apple's scheme seems to be to make the low-end machines affordable, but then really boost the price for the high-end. So they make most of the profit from people where price isn't an object. Thus you see the low-end G4 tower for $1699, but it goes up significantly from there. The iBook is price-competitive, but if you have to have a screen larger than 12.1", it's going to cost you a lot. And so on.
I'm not claiming I invented the light bulb before Edison.
You didn't; Joseph Swan invented the carbon filament light bulb (and sued Edison and won.) Edison deserves credit for improvements that extended the lifespan by eight-fold (from 150 hours to 1200).
You opinion isn't the law, thank god. He has been accused of breaking the law. He must stand trial for that.
A judge could decide the case has no merit and dismiss the charges without trial, so no, it isn't absolutely necessary. I'm not sure if the bail judge is in a position to do this, however. Skylarov's lawyers could and should file a motion for summary dismissal based on inappropriateness of the charges (it's not his frelling company! He's just an employee!), and it should be granted pre-trial.
How is working with RMS? If compromise is needed does he give in or does he stick to his line no matter what?
I suspect he refuses to go to restaurants where they won't give you their recipes. So KFC with those secret herbs and spices, and McDonalds with its secret sauce, are right out...
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For most languages, except those that have been made intentionaly difficult to read, it is just a matter of experience whether the language is easy to read or not.
Having written plenty of shell scripts, I can assure you this is not the case. I'd rather read C++ code I wrote four years ago than a shell script I wrote yesterday.
But to add a little more content, one thing I'd like to see in an editor is syntax-coloring of *matching* parentheses. I think that could help C++ and Lisp code reading.
Objective C is the primary development language for Mac OS X
That's as maybe, but I work on one a reasonably well-known Mac program, and we're sticking with C++ and the Carbon interface. Anyone who has a cross-platform app almost certainly isn't switching, and I suspect the rest aren't particularly hankering for a major rewrite.
There are two ways to do this. One way is to tackle the whole industry at once.
Another way is to build on the industry's current state, rather than change it whole-hog. C++ was essentially a superset of C, and Java didn't stray that far from C++.
Best Buy's website lists a $29.99 Mandrake Standard Edition as well as the Power Edition.
So is the original article, which is really terrible. Thirty minutes to go halfway around the world? There's all the clue you need that the author is clueless.
The author said 30 minutes going from Sydney to Melbourne, which is far from going halfway around the world.
I don't get it.. what's so difficult in deleting a few messages that you might not want to read ?
I've been going through 2,500 messages for my mom, for an account she has essentially never used. I have yet to find anything that wasn't spam.
You will find that most of the bad features of America started right when God was removed from schools.
Oh, you mean like the civil rights movement? Please. It's a whole bunch of bull---- that we're somehow less "nice" than people were before. I have Jewish relatives who are old enough to remember when they weren't allowed to join various country clubs, when hotels had signs that said "No dogs, no Jews". Remember the St. Louis? Filled with Jewish refugees, the U.S. and others refused to allow it to dock, and many of the passengers went back to perish in the Holocaust. And the U.S. refused to bomb the concentration camps at the request of Jewish leaders, claiming they were out of range. Only problem wit that excuse is, they actually did bomb (Auschwitz?) by accident, it was well within range. And it's not the modern-day South that let Medgar Evers and the like go free. Face it, human beings are depressingly human, and the Bible didn't prevent people from owning slaves, didn't stop the Trail of Tears or Wounded Knee, and so on and horribly so on.
Modern statist liberalism revolves around an all-powerful government that interferes in your daily affairs, taxes you to within an inch of your life, etc.
As opposed to modern conservatism, which interferes with who you can choose as your next of kin, which drugs you can use, borrows in your name to within an inch of your life, empowers corporations over individuals, etc.
If I'm going to import anime, I don't want to have to import a new DVD player as well.
I've heard that a lot of anime is not region-locked; you might want to investigate on some of the websites devoted to anime, they'll almost certainly have more info.
This is the absolute truth. In civil law, the defendant does not have near as many protections as they do under criminal law.
A rather noteworthy case of this, by the way, was the lawsuit against Bill Clinton. He lied about Lewinsky because he had no Fifth Amendment protections. About your only alternative in such a situation (aside from admitting you had an affair, even though it had no real bearing on the case at hand) is risking contempt charges.
I've had Comcast@Home for two years now. I had a period of poor connections, which they first tried to fix with a replacement modem and then on a second visit discovered was too much splitting and an attenuated signal. But the service was reasonably polite, the people were on time, etc.; hold time might have been a bit long. But in general I have n o complaints.
I see it as fundamentally no different than requiring ingredients labels on food packaging.
Ingredients labels are there for people with food allergies. Despite occasional claims, I am not in fact allergic to gotos or uncommented code. Are you?
The colonel's secret recipe is an exercise of power
Salt. Pepper. Eggs. Flour. Go cook.
His point was that the ability to use your IP to subjugate your users isn't an inappropriate power to have.
Sod off. I mean it. My company's users bought our software of their own free will, judging the licensing of our software to be worth more than the cash they gave us. Anyone who calls that subjugation needs a few whacks with a cluestick.
True hypocrisy? It was A-OK for the FSF to use proprietary software to achieve their goals from 1984 to the early 1990's, but it's not OK for you to use them for your (unrelated to free software) goals, no matter how noble.
C/C++ programmers are generally so much in love with the language that they are virtually blind for its disadvantages and ignore/dismiss competing languages
It's not just the language. For all the advantages of Lisp, Haskell, Eiffel, Sather, et al, there's nothing like the community and spread of C/C++. With C, I can work on the Linux kernel, Gnome, et al. C++ adds KDE, Mozilla, yadda yadda. What would I do with a "better" language? For all their warts, C and C++ are the lingua franca of programming, and trying to push other languages is rather like being a fan of Esperanto.
My wife read this article without my prompting, passed it to me with a deeply concerned look and said, "Have you heard about this?" (Relatively) mainstream America doesn't like this kind of crap either when they hear about it.
I know she lost her job, but she couldn't do it anymore. Footballers who get old get layed off, models who lose their looks loose their jobs, typists who can't type loose their jobs... life sucks, get over it.
Getting old happens with or without playing football. Footballers are usually insured to cover career-ending knee injuries, so if the job does cause the injury, they have a form of disability coverage. A model who lost her looks due to age isn't covered, that happens regardless of the job. A model who loses her looks in a bizarre cosmetics accident can sue and get recompense for a career-ending mascara injury. Policemen shot and disabled on the job get lifetime pensions.
In this case, the injury was caused by years of typing at work. So why shouldn't she be recompensed like anyone else disabled by on-the-job injuries?
The story about how Mexico was going to deploy Linux in all their schools everywhere...
Followed up a year later by another story stating that never happened because Linux was too hard to use.
That wasn't it at all. The primary problem mentioned was the inability to get drivers for their "winmodems." Nothing about Linux being inherently hard to use.
I'm pretty sure I found one with a 12.1" screen for comparison purposes.
Dell's site doesn't list Inspiron 4000s with anything other than 14.1" screens, the only choice being different resolutions. I can't rule out there being an earlier model also called 4000, but neoseeker's review links refer to slower processors but no smaller screens.
The iBook has a 12.1" screen, the Inspiron 4000 a 14.1". At the very least, screen size should be part of your comparison. Including weight would also be good, the iBook does pretty well there. (If you're going to maintain this, adding max memory would also be smart.)
So Apple is not quite there yet on price, but they are getting closer with the portables.
Apple's scheme seems to be to make the low-end machines affordable, but then really boost the price for the high-end. So they make most of the profit from people where price isn't an object. Thus you see the low-end G4 tower for $1699, but it goes up significantly from there. The iBook is price-competitive, but if you have to have a screen larger than 12.1", it's going to cost you a lot. And so on.
I'm not claiming I invented the light bulb before Edison.
You didn't; Joseph Swan invented the carbon filament light bulb (and sued Edison and won.) Edison deserves credit for improvements that extended the lifespan by eight-fold (from 150 hours to 1200).
You opinion isn't the law, thank god. He has been accused of breaking the law. He must stand trial for that.
A judge could decide the case has no merit and dismiss the charges without trial, so no, it isn't absolutely necessary. I'm not sure if the bail judge is in a position to do this, however. Skylarov's lawyers could and should file a motion for summary dismissal based on inappropriateness of the charges (it's not his frelling company! He's just an employee!), and it should be granted pre-trial.
How is working with RMS? If compromise is needed does he give in or does he stick to his line no matter what?
I suspect he refuses to go to restaurants where they won't give you their recipes. So KFC with those secret herbs and spices, and McDonalds with its secret sauce, are right out...
I was gonna suggest MBL (Mind-Bogglingly Large) for the next size up.