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One of the commenters on that article...
Andrew, on Charles' blog posted:
Hey Charles
I, like many people of my age (I'm 60) learned Windows programming from your book. At the time, I would have said that the code was insanely complex. I recently re-read the book, Having grappled with the Microsoft APIs ever since then, I found it refreshingly simple. WCF, Entity Framework anyone?
— Andrew, Tue, 9 Dec 2014 21:04:53 -0500
I learned from the Programming Windows 3.0 book and thought it was complex too. But Andrew is right. It ain't nothing compared to "modern frameworks which make things so much easier". har har har
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Atlas, a DevOps and application-delivery SaaS, lets developers deploy and maintain apps on any platform with Vagrant and open-source technologies at its core.
Vagrant's moving into a big fancy house.
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Apple and IBM are starting to deliver on their "landmark partnership" to transform business use of iPads and iPhones today. The first round of 10 apps include a mixture of applications aimed at financial institutions, insurance businesses, and even government agencies.
All your apps is belong to us.
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Today we’re updating our platform roadmap with a few more features that we’ve started working on input type='yay'
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And I thought IE on it's way to be more and more standard...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Does it include better HTML5 support??
'cause the app we just launched 2 days ago works fine on every other browser. 80% of the bugs we're getting are because of IE 11s crap HTML5 support.
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Technically, yes (those are all HTML5 features). But generally? No, I think you might still be hosed. Sorry about that.
TTFN - Kent
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After missing the boat on phones and tablets, Intel wants in on 'things' Intel Inside all the things
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Quote: all the things
Including "Internet of things"
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Pirate Bay, EZTV Down: Torrent Sites Offline For Prolonged Period Amid Increased Scrutiny Of Illegal Downloading
This is the way the world ends: Not with a bang but a whimper.
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'You can't stop the signal, Mal.'
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Backdoor tied to espionage campaign that has targeted governments in 45 countries. Ah, blissful schadenfreude
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Many programming languages have come and gone since Dennis Ritchie devised C in 1972, and yet C has not only survived three major revisions, but continues to thrive. Of ourse! Onsider what ommuniation would be like if we eased using it.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Of ourse! Onsider what ommuniation would be like if we eased using it.
Funny response.
But, this question could only be asked by someone who has never done embedded programming.
So without reading the article I know a bit about the author.
Assembler is still around too.
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Also, I'd wager it's still plenty useful in a real-time environment as well. I'd still use it today for a serious routine in a game or making a web app handle millions of users when doing some crunching. For everything else, there's MasterCard.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: still plenty useful in a real-time environment
Great point!
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In a rare moment of seriousness, yes, it is. A lot of the duck typed languages are written in C, if I'm writing low level driver stuff on a Beaglebone or Arduino, I'm using either C or C++ (and C is acceptable with its language improvements, I typically only use C++ because of it's better language style, not because of the OO part). C still remains one of the best ways to write "nearly" assembly language.
Marc
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In this three-part series, I will explore, and debunk, five popular myths about C++ Yeah, what does that guy know about C++?
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Some of those myths - I've never ever heard anyone say those. I mean, who thinks learning C is a requisite to learning C++?
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Actually, it's surprisingly frequent. On Reddit, I commonly see people ask for advice on how to learn C++ and be instructed to learn C first.
Of course Bjarne may be trying to get people to buy his own introductory programming tome based on C++.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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That was really interesting; please link to parts 2 and 3 when they're published.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I'm glad you enjoyed it. I'll definitely try to remember (about all I can promise these days)
TTFN - Kent
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