(new) Theory and Practice of Programming

Need a comparison, C#.NET vs Java - (drewk) - (27) - May 4, 2005, 12:17:48 AM EDT

IBM's JVM has better GC control. - (Another Scott) - (1) - May 4, 2005, 12:27:21 AM EDT

What about platform independence? - (drewk) - May 4, 2005, 12:39:40 AM EDT

Warning. C# and .NET are actually quite nice. - (pwhysall) - (1) - May 4, 2005, 01:18:45 AM EDT

Actually, I think dot net is so '90s - (tonytib) - May 4, 2005, 12:05:43 PM EDT

Corrections - (ben_tilly) - May 4, 2005, 02:51:16 AM EDT

Haven't studied memory managmenent, don't want to - (warmachine) - May 4, 2005, 02:57:28 AM EDT

Key differences: One of them sucks - (tuberculosis) - (17) - May 4, 2005, 03:10:22 AM EDT

Is "unmanaged" what he means when he says "unsafe function"? - (drewk) - (11) - May 4, 2005, 09:15:53 AM EDT

Send him here - (ben_tilly) - (9) - May 4, 2005, 09:46:31 AM EDT

Seconded. - (static) - (8) - May 5, 2005, 07:29:31 PM EDT

Thirded - (Ashton) - May 18, 2005, 01:34:52 AM EDT

Your honeymoon's showing. - (pwhysall) - (6) - May 18, 2005, 02:58:22 AM EDT

:-) -NT - (Another Scott) - May 18, 2005, 06:57:37 AM EDT

I read a statistic once ... - (drewk) - May 18, 2005, 09:07:39 AM EDT

That wasn't a deliberate misunderstanding, was it? - (static) - (3) - May 18, 2005, 08:47:29 PM EDT

</jokeson> -NT - (pwhysall) - (1) - May 19, 2005, 01:11:47 AM EDT

Yes, I know. :-) -NT - (static) - May 20, 2005, 09:51:28 AM EDT

How could it be anything else?!? Paranoia much, eh...? :-) -NT - (CRConrad) - May 19, 2005, 02:42:29 AM EDT

Yes - (tuberculosis) - May 4, 2005, 10:31:33 AM EDT

OT-OK Todd (and any body else who has a good answer)... - (jb4) - (4) - May 4, 2005, 07:03:55 PM EDT

Probably not a good answer...but... - (ChrisR) - (3) - May 4, 2005, 07:15:11 PM EDT

That's a pretty good answer - (tuberculosis) - (2) - May 4, 2005, 08:17:09 PM EDT

Any byte in the machine, or... - (jb4) - (1) - May 5, 2005, 11:35:07 AM EDT

As much protection as the Operating System provides... - (ChrisR) - May 5, 2005, 11:52:30 AM EDT

Re: Need a comparison, C#.NET vs Java - (dshellman) - May 4, 2005, 12:59:02 PM EDT

As long as you want to manage the low level details.... - (ChrisR) - (1) - May 4, 2005, 03:03:13 PM EDT

:-) -NT - (Another Scott) - May 4, 2005, 03:12:05 PM EDT

Stroustrup remains delusional about his evil little creation - (tuberculosis) - (9) - April 26, 2005, 12:55:50 PM EDT

Re: Stroustrup remains delusional about his evil little crea - (systems) - (8) - April 29, 2005, 07:00:20 AM EDT

Not really - (warmachine) - (1) - April 29, 2005, 10:22:00 AM EDT

Generics are a pain in the rear - (admin) - April 29, 2005, 10:31:08 AM EDT

Oh, I dislike Stepanov plenty as well - (tuberculosis) - (3) - April 29, 2005, 10:33:38 AM EDT

Just so you know - (jake123) - (2) - April 30, 2005, 09:21:20 PM EDT

OK - (tuberculosis) - (1) - April 30, 2005, 11:39:23 PM EDT

It's good if you ever find yourself working on IBM stuff - (jake123) - April 30, 2005, 11:43:28 PM EDT

Knowing Todd... - (ChrisR) - April 29, 2005, 10:35:40 AM EDT

MOP! I.Love.It. -NT - (mmoffitt) - April 29, 2005, 10:35:52 AM EDT

C# -> Linux Perl RPC? - (broomberg) - (21) - April 25, 2005, 10:05:38 PM EDT

RPC means...? - (dws) - (15) - April 25, 2005, 11:32:30 PM EDT

Re: RPC means...? - (Simon_Jester) - (1) - April 26, 2005, 02:57:03 AM EDT

When you hear "RPC", it makes sense to ask about context - (dws) - April 26, 2005, 03:12:48 AM EDT

Low volume - interactive - (broomberg) - (12) - April 26, 2005, 06:48:51 AM EDT

SOAP is a dirty word - (admin) - (11) - April 26, 2005, 07:07:13 AM EDT

REST in the ease of HTTP - (FuManChu) - (1) - April 26, 2005, 11:05:43 AM EDT

Yep, that's what we support here. -NT - (admin) - April 26, 2005, 01:39:57 PM EDT

Agreed - (ben_tilly) - (8) - April 26, 2005, 01:38:27 PM EDT

Irony can be so ironic... -NT - (admin) - April 26, 2005, 01:40:08 PM EDT

Sure it stands for something - (tuberculosis) - (6) - April 26, 2005, 02:03:33 PM EDT

Come on, you can do better than that: - (admin) - (5) - April 26, 2005, 02:10:59 PM EDT

I suppose - (tuberculosis) - (2) - April 26, 2005, 02:15:30 PM EDT

ROFL -NT - (FuManChu) - April 26, 2005, 02:27:57 PM EDT

That works -NT - (admin) - April 26, 2005, 03:43:09 PM EDT

Surely Over Agitation Pleases - (pwhysall) - April 26, 2005, 02:20:34 PM EDT

Simple Operations Are Perplexing -NT - (ben_tilly) - April 26, 2005, 04:34:35 PM EDT

OT: could you get rid of the animation in your icon - (Arkadiy) - (3) - April 30, 2005, 12:08:30 PM EDT

Use your browser features to disable that. - (Yendor) - April 30, 2005, 02:27:43 PM EDT

Somewhat changed. -NT - (broomberg) - (1) - April 30, 2005, 05:57:05 PM EDT

Oh yeah, that's just lovely (new thread) - (tuberculosis) - April 30, 2005, 06:08:46 PM EDT

I recently had to do something like that. - (static) - May 5, 2005, 07:14:35 PM EDT

OK, explain the cycle to the ignorant masses here -NT - (tuberculosis) - (22) - April 22, 2005, 02:00:32 PM EDT

What, again? - (imric) - (21) - April 22, 2005, 03:02:17 PM EDT

I'd have to use it to see the point - (ben_tilly) - (18) - April 22, 2005, 03:38:16 PM EDT

Unfortunately true for many. - (imric) - (17) - April 22, 2005, 03:49:43 PM EDT

I dunno, Skip - (jb4) - (3) - April 22, 2005, 04:07:44 PM EDT

You're up on me - (imric) - April 22, 2005, 04:21:05 PM EDT

SNOBOL *Two*? - (static) - (1) - May 5, 2005, 07:40:26 PM EDT

SNOBOL2 most definitely != SNOBOL4 -NT - (jb4) - May 7, 2005, 06:17:58 PM EDT

Can you give a concrete example? - (ben_tilly) - (12) - April 22, 2005, 04:15:16 PM EDT

I was thinking of that. - (imric) - April 22, 2005, 04:23:07 PM EDT

Think of perl autolooping - (broomberg) - (10) - April 22, 2005, 07:01:50 PM EDT

I'm thinking about that and... - (ben_tilly) - (9) - April 24, 2005, 08:27:33 PM EDT

I don't know Perl - (imric) - (8) - April 24, 2005, 09:04:18 PM EDT

Don't even bother - (broomberg) - (7) - April 25, 2005, 12:25:28 AM EDT

Whoa, that takes me back. - (imric) - (6) - April 25, 2005, 07:06:39 AM EDT

But, COBOL programs can be read by management! :) - (a6l6e6x) - (5) - April 25, 2005, 11:16:20 AM EDT

Cobol DOES give that illusion... -NT - (imric) - (2) - April 25, 2005, 11:38:21 AM EDT

Oh, sure they can, that's no illusion. - (CRConrad) - (1) - April 26, 2005, 05:47:22 AM EDT

heheh. -NT - (imric) - April 26, 2005, 06:47:09 AM EDT

Yeah, the same way I can read Hebrew :) - (Arkadiy) - (1) - April 30, 2005, 12:11:17 PM EDT

*chuckle* -NT - (imric) - May 2, 2005, 07:04:55 AM EDT

Ignoring the cycle - (FuManChu) - (1) - April 22, 2005, 04:24:37 PM EDT

Because - (imric) - April 22, 2005, 04:44:38 PM EDT

So what is wrong with your favorite language? - (JayMehaffey) - (22) - April 22, 2005, 09:54:38 AM EDT

The ones I get to code in? Or the ones I'd actully want to? -NT - (Arkadiy) - (5) - April 22, 2005, 11:02:37 AM EDT

You pick -NT - (tuberculosis) - (4) - April 22, 2005, 11:17:14 AM EDT

Well then, I'd nominate Smalltalk - (Arkadiy) - (3) - April 22, 2005, 11:38:46 AM EDT

Side note on Unit Testing - (JimWeirich) - (2) - April 22, 2005, 01:05:21 PM EDT

Ditto, but s/Ruby/Python - (admin) - April 22, 2005, 01:14:44 PM EDT

I write more in Smalltalk - (tuberculosis) - April 22, 2005, 02:06:18 PM EDT

I think that context is a horrible idea in Perl - (ben_tilly) - April 22, 2005, 11:18:48 AM EDT

I suspect many of my opinions are well known - (tuberculosis) - April 22, 2005, 11:32:23 AM EDT

Way too early for my candidate - (ChrisR) - April 22, 2005, 11:56:11 AM EDT

Positional, limited variable names and booleans - (imric) - (2) - April 22, 2005, 12:02:59 PM EDT

Agreed - (SpiceWare) - April 22, 2005, 01:50:42 PM EDT

OK, explain the cycle to the ignorant masses here (new thread) - (tuberculosis) - April 22, 2005, 02:00:32 PM EDT

Python... - (admin) - (3) - April 22, 2005, 01:39:05 PM EDT

Closures are being removed? -NT - (FuManChu) - (2) - April 22, 2005, 04:26:49 PM EDT

Lambdas, actually. - (admin) - (1) - April 22, 2005, 04:30:55 PM EDT

Yes; that bites. - (FuManChu) - April 22, 2005, 04:30:20 PM EDT

I can empathise about PHP. - (static) - May 5, 2005, 03:20:23 AM EDT

Nested hash notation in Perl. - (pwhysall) - (4) - May 5, 2005, 06:58:01 AM EDT

Naw. - (broomberg) - (3) - May 5, 2005, 07:50:50 AM EDT

Ick. -NT - (pwhysall) - May 5, 2005, 08:02:53 AM EDT

Compare to Ruby - (ben_tilly) - (1) - May 5, 2005, 04:31:40 PM EDT

Which is pretty much the same as Python - (admin) - May 5, 2005, 05:48:27 PM EDT

Linux: Managing the Kernel Source With 'git' - (bluke) - (1) - April 21, 2005, 07:56:23 AM EDT

Re: Linux: Managing the Kernel Source With 'git' - (JayMehaffey) - April 21, 2005, 08:33:07 AM EDT

Shell/awk/grep question - (pwhysall) - (3) - April 21, 2005, 03:47:18 AM EDT

This should do it - (broomberg) - April 21, 2005, 08:47:10 AM EDT

export AWKVAR=`awk -F, '{ print $1 }' thing.txt` - (boxley) - (1) - April 21, 2005, 09:51:20 AM EDT

Will a NL sepeated list work? - (broomberg) - April 21, 2005, 10:33:47 AM EDT

fmt:message inside c:forEach on JBoss4 - (Yendor) - (3) - April 20, 2005, 10:27:57 PM EDT

5.0.28 in JBoss ~= 5.0.28 standalone - (admin) - (1) - April 20, 2005, 06:18:38 PM EDT

Already have. No replies as yet. -NT - (Yendor) - April 20, 2005, 10:28:05 PM EDT

Ach, how could a computer read that much less a human? -NT - (tuberculosis) - April 20, 2005, 06:57:56 PM EDT

C Structure Question - (johnu) - (13) - April 18, 2005, 12:49:36 PM EDT

Re: C Structure Question - (admin) - (1) - April 18, 2005, 01:38:39 PM EDT

Re: C Structure Question - (johnu) - April 18, 2005, 01:56:36 PM EDT

:1 allows you to pack multiple members in one word - (Arkadiy) - (8) - April 18, 2005, 01:54:26 PM EDT

Yuck... - (johnu) - April 18, 2005, 02:12:38 PM EDT

Read the Cocoa headers - (tuberculosis) - April 18, 2005, 04:23:30 PM EDT

Re: much slower, too - (a6l6e6x) - (4) - April 20, 2005, 05:40:39 PM EDT

Well, embedded applications, yes... - (jb4) - (3) - April 21, 2005, 07:54:25 PM EDT

Re: "not for the reasons you state" - (a6l6e6x) - (2) - April 21, 2005, 09:18:25 PM EDT

I'll see your 6802... - (jb4) - (1) - April 22, 2005, 10:13:49 AM EDT

:-) -NT - (a6l6e6x) - April 24, 2005, 04:35:34 PM EDT

Re: :1 allows you to pack multiple members in one word - (jb4) - April 21, 2005, 07:45:05 PM EDT

more than 1 bit is possible too - (SpiceWare) - April 18, 2005, 03:03:51 PM EDT

It does work with JNIWrapper! - (johnu) - April 21, 2005, 09:25:05 AM EDT

PCL and graphics images - (broomberg) - (6) - April 17, 2005, 11:14:50 AM EDT

I'd guess HP-GL. - (Another Scott) - (5) - April 17, 2005, 11:42:43 AM EDT

Interesting - (broomberg) - (4) - April 17, 2005, 03:32:30 PM EDT

Which means ImageMagick convert should handle it. - (broomberg) - April 17, 2005, 03:46:25 PM EDT

Later PCL printers understood HP-GL. Some more links. - (Another Scott) - (2) - April 17, 2005, 04:13:44 PM EDT

Almost there - (broomberg) - April 17, 2005, 04:27:29 PM EDT

Great manual from Hitachi - thanks -NT - (broomberg) - April 17, 2005, 04:32:06 PM EDT

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