But I really like my semicolons (as much as lispers like their parenthesis)
Good news then!!!
Because you CAN use your semicolons in Gosu!
They are optional, although not the standard Gosu coding style. http://gosu-lang.org/doc/wwhelp/wwhimpl/api.htm?&context=gosu&src=intro&topic=Gosu_Statement_Terminators
New languages for the JVM are cool and all, but still no syntax fixes the problems inherent in the JVM. Mainly, the lack of generics.
Actually there are several improvements to the Gosu generics system that workaround JVM limitations.
In Java, when you use generics, the true type like MyClass is erased and it just becomes MyClass at run time. This called type erasure.
In Gosu, if you do the same thing, assuming MyClass is a Gosu type, the run time type is really MyClass. This is called reified generics.
(Note however that if the type is a Java type to start out with, like java.util.ArrayList, then the generic version ArrayList in Gosu follows the type erasure route as you'd imagine.)
But if you are playing in the Gosu world with Gosu types (for example, a Gosu class ), the language adds code that really does preserve generics even though the JVM doesn't natively think that way.
"But it IS a piece of Gosu!"
Don't worry: the language will probably be cancelled before it has a chance to really get going.
Anyway, that was my first thought too, then I wondered if it was an invitation to Oracle's lawyers...?
regarding the "chance to really get going", Gosu is already used by multi-billion dollar companies around the world already, for a bunch of years.
See a list of companies here: http://www.guidewire.com/our_customers
It's just that the language now available to a wider audience who want it, not just Guidewire Software customers.
"could of used a screenshot or two of the historical operating systems."
What the fuck does "could of" mean?
Native speakers know that he really meant "it could have", which in verbal English becomes "coulda" or "could've", the latter of which sounds like what he typed.
There's no need to be mean about it. And certainly no need to score the parent post as "Score: 3 Insightful".
I can see it now... the ships land at the UN and... Alien: Greetings. We come in peace. UN: Where do you come from? Alien: A distant galaxy nearly 10 billion light years away. Our world has no crime, no disease, no wars; we value learning as the pinnacle of achievement. We have been waiting 2,000 of your years for the moment when Humanity is ready for contact. We feel the time is right. UN: Why are you here? Alien: We came to be baptized. Praise Jesus! or not...
I can see it now... the ships land at the UN and...
Alien: Greetings. We come in peace.
UN: Where do you come from?
Alien: A distant galaxy nearly 10 billion light years away.
UN: Why are you here?
Alien: To escape religious persecution! Most of our galaxy are ZYZYZYYZ-ists and we dont' feel safe to practice the Tarvu religion. We came to be baptized on the planet of our many-tentacled prophet. Praise Tarvu!
http://www.tarvu.com/
It's so easy to join!
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Suppose you buy an expensive piece of industrial equipment. Once you get it home, you open the box and an EULA falls out. It says you didn't buy the device, you licensed the ability to use it. It says you may not sell the device, or return it for a refund, it is yours now once and for all time. Further, you agree that you can't sue for any injury that happens, even if such an injury is a result of a defect in manufacturing.
How would that be any different? How would that be at all legal, based on existing contract law?
i'm not a lawyer, but i've been told that you can't sign away your rights to sue for negligence or dangerous products and things like that. so even if someone convinces you to sign, that clause isn't enforceable in the US, or so I've been told. for example, if you rent a parachute and it turns out that they stuffed your parachute with old rags and not a parachute by acident, your survivors can still sue even if you've signed a thing waving your rights.
if someone else knows more about the details about how this is handled in different jurisdictions, please speak up...
What would an XKCDsort look like?
I dunno what it would look like, but when they run the sound algorithm on it, it would sound like some awesome song from Guitar Hero.
At least they didn't call it,
iMagic.
Yet.
It is prophesied! Or prophesized! Or prophephizizzle! Or whatever that word is!
Someday I'll link back to this post and say we warned you all!!!!
"What man has done, man can aspire to do." -- Jerry Pournelle, about space flight
