Journal Jeagoss's Journal: First Journal.
Yeah, I finally decided to write in my slashdot journal. I just wanted everyone else to see my nonsense ravings. I finally decided to write in my journal after my posts on the QT4 article. I just don't understand some opensource projects. "Oh, lets change the underlying api's but keep source compatibility, and lets do it on the release of every major version. Then during the minor versions, we'll break binary compatibility on every 4th release, just to keep the other projects guessing."
On the other hand, I really don't understand why such simplistic application projects are being written in low level languages. Why do I need a text editor written in C? Why would a coder of putting himself through the bugs and complications of a low level language, when he can write a very simple program in a high level language, which would get the job done faster, and would be easier to maintain? Does he use a low level language to look l33t? Seriously, what ever happened to use the tool that will get the job done the fastest and easiest? When I write code for our company, I don't bust out X86-ASM to write a data viewer. I would use python with the proper data class. It would take only a few minutes, and it would make the boss happy. Then I could return to reading the endless comedy on slashdot, plotting ways of making SCO disappear, and thinking of ways I can implement OpenBSD style paranoia in the Linux kernel.
Well, that is probably enough ranting for now.
On the other hand, I really don't understand why such simplistic application projects are being written in low level languages. Why do I need a text editor written in C? Why would a coder of putting himself through the bugs and complications of a low level language, when he can write a very simple program in a high level language, which would get the job done faster, and would be easier to maintain? Does he use a low level language to look l33t? Seriously, what ever happened to use the tool that will get the job done the fastest and easiest? When I write code for our company, I don't bust out X86-ASM to write a data viewer. I would use python with the proper data class. It would take only a few minutes, and it would make the boss happy. Then I could return to reading the endless comedy on slashdot, plotting ways of making SCO disappear, and thinking of ways I can implement OpenBSD style paranoia in the Linux kernel.
Well, that is probably enough ranting for now.
