So, I lived in West Africa for a couple years. Having lived there, I can speak from experience. The locals there know exactly what medication they need for malaria. They're very clear on the causes, symptoms, and results. They use mosquito nets. A net only gets you so far, however. I know, I got it. I spent several days in a hospital.
Trust me, WebMD is not what they need.
It's funny that those on the left think that both parties are right-wing, and those on the right think both parties are left-wing. Does that mean the parties are actually centrist?
What you and everyone else is missing (possible Billy G too) is that all of these problems he's trying to address is caused by dictatorships, despots and other forms of corruption and tyranny.
The mosquitoes and P. falciparum will be happy to hear that. They've been demonized for so long, unjustly, as it turns out.
Yeah but compare it to C# and
Compare what? C# makes it quite easy to call out to native code. Anything with a C api is most likely going to be easy to work with.
Oh, and with IKVM, anything Java is also
stuck in a tarpit where stuff is bogged down
A tarpit called Oracle?
What matters is reality, not the behaviour we would expect of perfect rational actors.
raymorris claimed
One of the safest places in the world is a gun range, because you don't start a fight knowing that everyone is armed
but this claim was unsubstanciated, and the fact is the murder at the shooting range did happen.
The fact that a murder happened at a range doesn't refute the claim that "one of the safest places in the world is a gun range" in the least. You might have noticed that murders occasionally happen *NOT* at a gun range as well...
So, in your opinion, in VB6, where one has to MANUALLY ensure there are no circular references, there is no garbage collection? Interesting.
My point was, that guy was obviously mentally unhinged, and what happened at that range could have (would have?) happened anywhere. Obviously, a rational person would consider that a range is more likely than elsewhere to have a high concentration of people prepared, able, and willing to defend themselves and others.
Kind of like how you need to worry about eliminating references in pure reference-counting garbage collectors?
Uh, yeah, that wasn't exactly an alleyway mugging gone wrong...
So does malloc()/free()...
There's more than one way to debounce a switch. You described one, GP described another.
Um, you know this equipment doesn't run on 110VAC, right? Undervolt doesn't apply until you get to levels so low that nothing else in your house is working.
Ssh. They're having fun, let them be.
What does malloc()/free() do that GC does not? What does GC do that malloc()/free() do not?
God doesn't play dice. -- Albert Einstein
