Comment REXX (Score 1) 247
Ibm used to say for a time that REXX was the most used language in the world.
Comment Re:Why .Net? (Score 1) 247
People coming from the CS background just hate Fortran, but that thing just doesn't go away. Physics and Math people love it.
The performance excuse is mostly excuse, you can have pretty much the same performance with C or well-made C++. The fact is that it's easier to come from a mathematical model to code in fortran than in C.
Comment Re:Why .Net? (Score 1) 247
That depends on the small world you live at.
PHP WAS used for those things. People moved to ruby, python, etc. Which is bad, now when finally php does not suck anymore.
C is HUGE. The open-source world is C. Everything unix is C. Pretty much every compiler for other language is C. The embedded world is C as well.
Fortran is not legacy AT ALL. In my world, which is that of Supercomputing, about one third of new codes is in FORTRAN. It is simpler for the people in Math and physics fields to use it and achieve high speed using hundreds of thousand processors. (the other two thirds are roughly C and C++).
Perl and python are used for data analysis in science. And some R.
Python is used everywhere in Linux distributions.
Functional languages are used in wall street.
You can't even compare those with stuff like cold fusion.
Comment Re:Anything that isn't C (Score 1) 247
After I saw some idiots taking pictures with notebooks at concerts, I would say yes
Comment Re:Depends on your definition of legacy (Score 1) 247
That's because you don't live in reality. Legacy is that thing where you can't get any new, fresh programmers to work with. Good luck finding a 20yr-old PL/I ou AC/L or COBOL language.
Or
Comment Re:Anything that isn't C (Score 1) 247
iOS, Mac OS, Linux and *BSD?
Comment Re:Ha ha (Score 1) 465
Ah, the same shit as with erections.
There, fixed for you
Comment Re:Ha ha (Score 1) 465
could I buy pizza with tulips? because I just did that today at The Netherlands.
Comment Re:Ha ha (Score 1) 465
I could swear that the Euro only entered in circulation almost twenty years AFTER what you declare as using it for oil. Actually, it was 1999. So, your information is wrong.
Comment Re:well... (Score 1) 531
I could swear that the "gcc" on current macs is just a shortcut for clang.
Yep, it is:
$ gcc --help
OVERVIEW: clang LLVM compiler
Comment Re:You lost me at vim (Score 1) 531
pff. Vi is great when all you have is a 300/75 baud connection and your "terminal" is an electronic typewriter with a two-lines display (one for the line being edited, one for modal)
To be honest, my impression is that vi was DESIGNED for that use case.
Ask Slashdot: Suggestions For a Simple Media Server? 420
rueger writes "We live and breathe Netflix, but sometimes want to watch programs downloaded from the 'net. I've been carrying them downstairs on a USB stick, but would prefer to run a small media server on my Mint Linux box. As usual, I thought this would be simple. Install a package on my PC, and use our Netgear NeoTV Max box to play stuff off of the server. Plex was highly recommended, and installed easily, but will see some .mkv files, but not others, for no obvious reason. The one file that does show up plays fine, except that subtitles don't work. And it completely refuses to see the partition full of music. A quick tour of the Plex forums suggests that making this work would take more hours than I'm prepared to spend. Serviio looked good too, and 'sees' my music, and sees the movie folders that Plex couldn't, but won't show the actual .mkv files. And again, it looks like configuring the thing could consume half of my life. So I'm asking: is there a fairly simple, works-right-out-of-the-box, fairly resource friendly media server that will just allow me to play movies that I download without a lot of headaches? (One obvious issue is that movies and TV shows downloaded can be in a any of a dozen formats. I'd love it if the server dealt with that. I'm also open to suggestions for a Roku style box that does Netflix well, but which will also play nicely with a media server. And if any or all of these things can also let me play streaming video off the web (like BBC iPlayer content), I'll be in heaven.)"
Comment Re:Any Android Tablet (Score 1) 370
Nope. Get an ipad. Better accessibility.
I use android myself, but my father has the same problem. He uses an ipad with big letters, big contrast. works.
Comment Re:another design cue from apple? (Score 1) 408
Nope! I like it. I miss the lenovo keyboard every time I have to use a Vaio.
Comment Re:another design cue from apple? (Score 1) 408
I know what those keys are for. Especially because I write daily in German, Portuguese, Spanish and occasionally in a couple of other languages, besides English.
And you know why the apple ones were created, and why they didn't use the already existing modifiers, right? And then why microsoft made those, as well. You can find it on the web.
You might not like the symbol (on the alt case, but never mind - the new keyboards call it alt now). I like the cmd symbol, which is the symbol for touristic landmarks in nordic countries.
Oh, and I am hardly a kid anymore.
