Almost everything is better than JavaScript. JavaScript was good enough as a light-duty scripting and glue language, which it originally was designed for in browsers.
Now people are trying to write GUI frameworks and systems software with it, which is NOT what a scripting language is meant for. Scripting languages should be using/connecting-to systems software, not implementing it.
JavaScript is the wrong tool for the job. It's only popular because it's built into browsers, not because people love it. I'm sure a few will disagree, but a wider survey would show no love of JavaScript for bigger projects.
(It's not even a good scripting language, but that's another topic.)
Most Mainframe programs from the late 1960's work with little or no changes. You can complain about COBOL and JCL, but at least a mainframe shop doesn't have to rewrite programs from scratch every 15 years or so for every new programming or UI fad style that comes along.
Maybe it cost more up-front to use the clunky mainframe languages, but if you factor in the cost of rewriting every 15 years to keep up with the Joneses, then the mainframe approach perhaps is cheaper over the long run. And more reliable.
Those who complain often wanted to build their own framework or wrappers for sometimes legitimate reasons and sometimes because they just wanted to re-shape VB to fit their personal head model.
If you used it to simply build an app and move on, it was quick and easy to use (aside from DLL hell). If you wanted to reshape it or wrap it to resemble something else, its OO model was indeed limited.
For in-house programs from multi-hat IT people who wanted a quick learning curve, it was great. For a software house who wanted a streamlined framework to quicken aggregate productivity and could spend the training time for such a framework, it was indeed limited.
Delphi and Delphi clones may be a better choice for a mass-programming shop or department (per desktop software).
Why do you say that? When there is a major overhaul of a tool or language, the pre-overhaul versions are typically called "classic". It's convenient. Using version number ranges is harder to remember for both the speaker and the listener.
One thing I liked about VB classic and Delphi is that they are pretty much WYSIWYG (at least in the 90's, I haven't tested them on newer OS). With the web stack, different browser brands and versions and OS settings will make stuff shift all funny unless you leave fat ugly margins. You have to test on like 25 browser/OS variations or more to rule out funny shuffling. I FUCKING HATE THAT!
WYSIWYG is a good invention, it's why PDF's live. Please bring it back. Our tools de-volved. Auto-flow is evil; I spit on it daily; I use to have nice hair, and now it looks like Bernie Sander's hair.
Actually the blue seems to be mostly the reflection of the Earth's sky. The actual ocean is kind of a dark muddy green on average. But if you look at the water from an angle, it's blue, like the sky, regardless of the water color.
I'm not sure the color of Mars' sky back then. Now the color is mostly driven by dust particles because there's so little actual air, but Mars had a thicker atmosphere in the past, before it lost its magnetic field.
It's true the rich can afford better lawyers to make law fuzz their buddy instead of a liability; that's not news.
As far as "clear and decisive message", Trump blatantly admitted to bribing, and Bernie is not likely to make it to the final round. Thus, it will be a runoff between two "players". Unicorns and rainbows won't be in the running.
The second is in the editorial section of the e-mag.
The third she said was short-hand shop-talk asking to clean out the classified parts so it could be published. Whether that's true or not is premature to judge. The actual result of that cleaning has not been made public yet. If was cleaned up properly, then it's a non-issue.
Still NO smoking gun. You are seeing what you want to see.
NPR is usually FM. The topic was AM, as I interpreted it. Further, it doesn't have near the ratings as the top AM talk shows (commercial) and thus has a very limited impact on public opinion in comparison.
Non-biased legal experts say the related laws are convoluted and murky. After all, how many law makers do you know who can write non-ambiguous and meaningful laws on technology? Bigfoot is probably more common.
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Almost everything is better than JavaScript. JavaScript was good enough as a light-duty scripting and glue language, which it originally was designed for in browsers.
Now people are trying to write GUI frameworks and systems software with it, which is NOT what a scripting language is meant for. Scripting languages should be using/connecting-to systems software, not implementing it.
JavaScript is the wrong tool for the job. It's only popular because it's built into browsers, not because people love it. I'm sure a few will disagree, but a wider survey would show no love of JavaScript for bigger projects.
(It's not even a good scripting language, but that's another topic.)
Please elaborate. Finance and banking co's are heavy COBOL users, for example, and they are not shrinking (unfortunately).
I accidentally bumped Submit prematurely. Sorry about the bold font.
And it should be "fad or style" instead of "fad style".
Not necessarily.
Most Mainframe programs from the late 1960's work with little or no changes. You can complain about COBOL and JCL, but at least a mainframe shop doesn't have to rewrite programs from scratch every 15 years or so for every new programming or UI fad style that comes along.
Maybe it cost more up-front to use the clunky mainframe languages, but if you factor in the cost of rewriting every 15 years to keep up with the Joneses, then the mainframe approach perhaps is cheaper over the long run. And more reliable.
Those who complain often wanted to build their own framework or wrappers for sometimes legitimate reasons and sometimes because they just wanted to re-shape VB to fit their personal head model.
If you used it to simply build an app and move on, it was quick and easy to use (aside from DLL hell). If you wanted to reshape it or wrap it to resemble something else, its OO model was indeed limited.
For in-house programs from multi-hat IT people who wanted a quick learning curve, it was great. For a software house who wanted a streamlined framework to quicken aggregate productivity and could spend the training time for such a framework, it was indeed limited.
Delphi and Delphi clones may be a better choice for a mass-programming shop or department (per desktop software).
Why do you say that? When there is a major overhaul of a tool or language, the pre-overhaul versions are typically called "classic". It's convenient. Using version number ranges is harder to remember for both the speaker and the listener.
One thing I liked about VB classic and Delphi is that they are pretty much WYSIWYG (at least in the 90's, I haven't tested them on newer OS). With the web stack, different browser brands and versions and OS settings will make stuff shift all funny unless you leave fat ugly margins. You have to test on like 25 browser/OS variations or more to rule out funny shuffling. I FUCKING HATE THAT!
WYSIWYG is a good invention, it's why PDF's live. Please bring it back. Our tools de-volved. Auto-flow is evil; I spit on it daily; I use to have nice hair, and now it looks like Bernie Sander's hair.
If they had named it Boaty McBoatface, they could have made enough on souvenirs to clean it up.
No, the 8-ball is too honest
But I can juggle and sing on a unicycle while trolling
Cartoonists are licking their chops.
Actually the blue seems to be mostly the reflection of the Earth's sky. The actual ocean is kind of a dark muddy green on average. But if you look at the water from an angle, it's blue, like the sky, regardless of the water color.
I'm not sure the color of Mars' sky back then. Now the color is mostly driven by dust particles because there's so little actual air, but Mars had a thicker atmosphere in the past, before it lost its magnetic field.
Cowabunga! little pink Earth dude. Or, should I say, Marsabunga!
Mars was perhaps more Earth-like than Earth was for the first 2 billion or so years, by today's standards.
Earth was a volcanic and tide-driven* mess early on, while Mars' interior was cool enough to have semi-stable land masses and lakes or oceans.
It's why some speculate life first formed on Mars and then was blasted to Earth via meteor strikes. Mars was prime real-estate for life first.
* The moon was closer and Earth rotated faster back then. Faster rotation itself generally stirs up weather.
In short, we are pussy-whipped into watching.
Pussy-whipped males are therefore part of the audience, for good or bad. Deal.
Addendum: here's a link to H's side of the "headers removed" saga:
http://hotair.com/archives/201...
It's true the rich can afford better lawyers to make law fuzz their buddy instead of a liability; that's not news.
As far as "clear and decisive message", Trump blatantly admitted to bribing, and Bernie is not likely to make it to the final round. Thus, it will be a runoff between two "players". Unicorns and rainbows won't be in the running.
The first link says "suggests".
The second is in the editorial section of the e-mag.
The third she said was short-hand shop-talk asking to clean out the classified parts so it could be published. Whether that's true or not is premature to judge. The actual result of that cleaning has not been made public yet. If was cleaned up properly, then it's a non-issue.
Still NO smoking gun. You are seeing what you want to see.
Nobody has presented public evidence that ANY were clearly classified at the time she sent/received them.
Zilcho.
Uranus did.
NPR is usually FM. The topic was AM, as I interpreted it. Further, it doesn't have near the ratings as the top AM talk shows (commercial) and thus has a very limited impact on public opinion in comparison.
Non-biased legal experts say the related laws are convoluted and murky. After all, how many law makers do you know who can write non-ambiguous and meaningful laws on technology? Bigfoot is probably more common.
Hey, the regular State Dept. email server was a generic box, and was hacked. We are comparing Pinto's to Yugo's here, not to Cadillacs.
Pundits keep implying she skipped "the good system". There was no good system for "regular" work emails.
Well, they replaced Trump's sites with insult-bots, but nobody knew the diff. AND his ratings went UP.
Indeed. It would be news only if they were not attempting such. Ex: "Strange gap found in hacker target patterns."
So if you combine a Trump speech with a Palin speech, you get random Shakespeare?