a return to the statement-based languages of yesteryear might actually be a good thing: let the coder get on with writing his code, and let the interface builder do all the fancy OO stuff.
Not hardly. I just rewrote a VB 3-6 application into C#.NET because nobody can compile it anymore (requires a 16-bit tab component and nobody has VB4 16-bit install disks, let alone floppy drives even if we did).
The original application was 13,000 lines of BASIC, written (mostly full or half time) over the span of 11 years. The new C# application is 900 lines and has MORE functionality (not to mention nice commenting as opposed to NONE) and I wrote it in 2 months.*
Return to the bad old days of underpowered languages that require thousands of lines to read a database and display it on the screen? No thanks.
*BTW, this brings up a good point. Just because some company has 9 million lines of COBOL doesn't mean that the programs couldn't be replaced with 500,000 lines of an OO language.
Since COBOL doesn't have subroutines or any way to pass parameters save global variables, I would say that is a safe bet.
I'll bet this software has some pretty low security standards.
Actually, most mainframes have very robust built-in security that is easy to implement, so, you'd most likely be wrong on this one.
I'll bet this software requires a client app installed on any user's machine.
Unless by client app you meant green screen terminal emulator, you would almost certainly be wrong. I'm sure it has 100 screens of nice 80X24 text input.
If you're short on funds, you're short on funds but if you're saying it's cheaper I would like to see your pricing chart for usability, stability, maintainability, etc.
Exactly the problem with COBOL in the modern world. Every COBOL project I've seen takes at least 3X longer than the.NET equivalent, with way less features.
I think there will always be a niche market for every language but if you mean 'come back' like COBOL would become the average developer's language of choice I would curtly retort with a sharp 'ha.'
Exactly. Though they probably meant that COBOL salaries will be on the rise again, since as COBOL programmers retire and die off and nobody under the age of 40 wants to learn it, there will be an extreme shortage of maintenance programmers. Although, theoretically, that shortage could be filled by outsourcing to countries (like India) where jobs are scarce and people would learn COBOL to better their life.
I just spent $30 at Amazon.com to get unencumbered MP3s last week. Yes, I know how to download songs.
I have a better one for you. I found a copy of Weird Al's latest album online as zipped MP3s. I wanted to listen to the tracks through once to see which ones were worth buying. I then went to Apple's iTunes store and BOUGHT the tracks I like and deleted the rest. Then I paid to see him in concert when he was local. Wow, I must be a real idiot or maybe just someone with morals...
Maybe it was the fact that I had an Atari 800XL and everyone pirated and pretty soon nobody made software for it anymore (not good software, anyway).
Actually, this isn't correct. A 1080i signal can vary between 1920, 1440, 1280, etc. horizontal lines of resolution while still being 16X9. This is, of course, in the analog realm.
Obviously in the digital realm, things are far more fixed.
Like most versions before 500 AD, it's missing Mark 16:9ff, which is why that passage probably says "This passage is not in the most ancient manuscripts" in your Bible. The resurrection story is still present in Matthew, Mark 16:7-8, Luke, John, Romans, etc.
I recommend starting with John and continuing through Acts and Romans. Just those 3 books (which will take about 2-3 hours to read), will give you a very good understanding of the core of Christian belief.
Those debates already happened 1) when it was found and 2) in the 70s when the New International Version and others came out "removing" the text that had been added between 330 AD and 1530 AD, which was the start of the "King James only" movement because evil Bible publishers were removing stuff from their Bible.
All modern Bible scholars are aware of Codex Siniaticus and its contents. They are in the margin notes of every Greek New Testament.
Not likely. Any Greek New Testament will already show you the entire contents of the differences of Codex Siniaticus in the margins. I forget which letter it is in the alternates, but I think it is marked as "C" or "E". The differences usually amount to "a" vs. "an" or whether someone said "a" or "the" or stuff like that. There are no major differences in theology.
Codex Siniaticus was already consulted in all new translations made since around 1960, such as the New International Version, for instance.
"Inspired" usually means that people believe it to be the infallible word of God written through a human author. Or, at least the original Greek was.
So, if reading a translation the Bible leads to a lot of misunderstandings about God (very few, actually), it would seem that not reading it would lead to far more...
Thanks to Kurt Aland, Greek New Testaments already show scholars EXACTLY what each version of the scriptures says (all 5600 versions), including Codex Siniaticus, and they can reconstruct ANY manuscript from the notes at the bottom.
No mention of the resurrection? Surprises? Not hardly. Where do people come up with this stuff?
I guarantee you there will be ZERO surprises to anyone.
I'm no scientist, but doesn't it stand to reason that whatever helps a farmer's plants grow also helps algae grow, because, you know, it's a plant?
If you are growing a plant with similar characteristics (desired pH, etc) to algae, your runoff will necessarily grow algae as well, regardless of what it is...right?
I sat my daughters (10 & 8) down with me and said, "We're going to make a copy of this calculator on the computer."
They had a lot of fun drawing the buttons, coloring them and double-clicking them to make them put their number on the screen. When it got to the tedium of acutally handling the stack and making the operations work, they were a little less interested. But when they saw it working, they had a really good understanding of what it is that I do.
Will they be any good at programming or even want to do it? I don't know, and frankly, I don't care. I just want them to find a career doing something that they love, finding a good husband and having a nice family (I'm selfish, I want grandchildren, sue me).
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Not hardly. I just rewrote a VB 3-6 application into C#.NET because nobody can compile it anymore (requires a 16-bit tab component and nobody has VB4 16-bit install disks, let alone floppy drives even if we did).
The original application was 13,000 lines of BASIC, written (mostly full or half time) over the span of 11 years. The new C# application is 900 lines and has MORE functionality (not to mention nice commenting as opposed to NONE) and I wrote it in 2 months.*
Return to the bad old days of underpowered languages that require thousands of lines to read a database and display it on the screen? No thanks.
*BTW, this brings up a good point. Just because some company has 9 million lines of COBOL doesn't mean that the programs couldn't be replaced with 500,000 lines of an OO language.
COBOL has loops? Since when?
Unless you consider GOTO a loop constructor...
Since COBOL doesn't have subroutines or any way to pass parameters save global variables, I would say that is a safe bet.
Actually, most mainframes have very robust built-in security that is easy to implement, so, you'd most likely be wrong on this one.
Unless by client app you meant green screen terminal emulator, you would almost certainly be wrong. I'm sure it has 100 screens of nice 80X24 text input.
Exactly the problem with COBOL in the modern world. Every COBOL project I've seen takes at least 3X longer than the .NET equivalent, with way less features.
Exactly. Though they probably meant that COBOL salaries will be on the rise again, since as COBOL programmers retire and die off and nobody under the age of 40 wants to learn it, there will be an extreme shortage of maintenance programmers. Although, theoretically, that shortage could be filled by outsourcing to countries (like India) where jobs are scarce and people would learn COBOL to better their life.
I just spent $30 at Amazon.com to get unencumbered MP3s last week. Yes, I know how to download songs.
I have a better one for you. I found a copy of Weird Al's latest album online as zipped MP3s. I wanted to listen to the tracks through once to see which ones were worth buying. I then went to Apple's iTunes store and BOUGHT the tracks I like and deleted the rest. Then I paid to see him in concert when he was local. Wow, I must be a real idiot or maybe just someone with morals...
Maybe it was the fact that I had an Atari 800XL and everyone pirated and pretty soon nobody made software for it anymore (not good software, anyway).
There are 12 lunar periods. I have never heard that the Greeks had 10 months.
They want to repeat the EPIC FAIL that was DCOM?
I mean, yeah, that's just what we want. Machines that run code from other machines as if it's our own machine...
No hacker will EVER exploit that.
And given the long timeframes you've referenced, I'll expect to see it just after the Object-based Filesystem and Duke Nukem Forever...
Actually, this isn't correct. A 1080i signal can vary between 1920, 1440, 1280, etc. horizontal lines of resolution while still being 16X9. This is, of course, in the analog realm.
Obviously in the digital realm, things are far more fixed.
It's not that F-Lock is so bad, it's the fact that it is ON BY DEFAULT EVERY TIME YOU BOOT THE FRIGGIN PC that's the problem.
The keyboard I'm on right now (a Logitech) has the F-Lock key and I never think about it because it remembers the setting between reboots.
This link is in French. I'd rather read scripts. At least they're in Geek.
If he trusts a mayor that has no problems violating state laws when it suits his purpose, he has a lot to learn...
Like most versions before 500 AD, it's missing Mark 16:9ff, which is why that passage probably says "This passage is not in the most ancient manuscripts" in your Bible. The resurrection story is still present in Matthew, Mark 16:7-8, Luke, John, Romans, etc.
I recommend starting with John and continuing through Acts and Romans. Just those 3 books (which will take about 2-3 hours to read), will give you a very good understanding of the core of Christian belief.
If he weren't dead... while God is still living...
I'm not sure the thousands of Christians murdered by Islamists in Lebanon and Indonesia agree with you.
They probably didn't feel like they were held in a very high regard.
Those debates already happened 1) when it was found and 2) in the 70s when the New International Version and others came out "removing" the text that had been added between 330 AD and 1530 AD, which was the start of the "King James only" movement because evil Bible publishers were removing stuff from their Bible.
All modern Bible scholars are aware of Codex Siniaticus and its contents. They are in the margin notes of every Greek New Testament.
Not likely. Any Greek New Testament will already show you the entire contents of the differences of Codex Siniaticus in the margins. I forget which letter it is in the alternates, but I think it is marked as "C" or "E". The differences usually amount to "a" vs. "an" or whether someone said "a" or "the" or stuff like that. There are no major differences in theology.
Codex Siniaticus was already consulted in all new translations made since around 1960, such as the New International Version, for instance.
The King James is a translation into English from a very late (Erasmus' 1580 AD Greek--i.e. more minor errors introduced) Greek version.
Codex Siniaticus is not a translation. It is a copy of the original Greek from around 325-350 AD.
"Inspired" usually means that people believe it to be the infallible word of God written through a human author. Or, at least the original Greek was.
So, if reading a translation the Bible leads to a lot of misunderstandings about God (very few, actually), it would seem that not reading it would lead to far more...
There are fragments from the 100s AD.
Thanks to Kurt Aland, Greek New Testaments already show scholars EXACTLY what each version of the scriptures says (all 5600 versions), including Codex Siniaticus, and they can reconstruct ANY manuscript from the notes at the bottom.
No mention of the resurrection? Surprises? Not hardly. Where do people come up with this stuff?
I guarantee you there will be ZERO surprises to anyone.
The finding of the court is LAW, not FACT. The courts have found against FACT many, many times.
People on Slashdot know the difference.
No, just weapons-grade spent uranium. That's all...
I'm no scientist, but doesn't it stand to reason that whatever helps a farmer's plants grow also helps algae grow, because, you know, it's a plant?
If you are growing a plant with similar characteristics (desired pH, etc) to algae, your runoff will necessarily grow algae as well, regardless of what it is...right?
It took 37 years to figure out that fertilizer helps plants grow?
I sat my daughters (10 & 8) down with me and said, "We're going to make a copy of this calculator on the computer."
They had a lot of fun drawing the buttons, coloring them and double-clicking them to make them put their number on the screen. When it got to the tedium of acutally handling the stack and making the operations work, they were a little less interested. But when they saw it working, they had a really good understanding of what it is that I do.
Will they be any good at programming or even want to do it? I don't know, and frankly, I don't care. I just want them to find a career doing something that they love, finding a good husband and having a nice family (I'm selfish, I want grandchildren, sue me).
And if you go to the Olympics, you may want to avoid the "chicken"...