Comment Re:REXX... (Score 1) 477
There is support for Rexx on all platforms, including Android and iOS.
There is support for Rexx on all platforms, including Android and iOS.
If you look at a list of their acquisitions, you can see why they have 20 million lines of code in a single code base. Merging and kludging generates a lot of overhead.
As much respect as I have for Joel and his experience, some of his beliefs are just wrong in the world of software engineering.
That's because he is often making ignorant statements based on inexperience. This is prevalent in the software industry, where some guru who is very good at apples gets an audience for his statements on oranges.
You really have to wonder how much companies pay for product placement in these articles. I counted at least 10 companies besides Intuit getting explicit mention with some product of theirs.
What difference does your ability to try to come punch me in the face make? I thought if you got the other person to take a swing at you, then you've won the debate.
When an author needs to explain parts of some THING or some THEORY, using the terms that the reader is likely to encounter in further reading is of benefit to the reader, and shouldn't be avoided.
There you go using jargon words like "theory", which, the right-wing has clearly demonstrated, is a difficult word to understand.
your neighborhood UPS or Fedex delivery truck is not refrigerated.
The Schwan truck is refrigerated, but if you're not from a rural area, you might have not seen one.
The OP of this thread detailed a laundry list of flaws. His final quote should have been, "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger." Sure, you get used to C's limitations ("great power"[sic]) and get used to programming in it, but that doesn't make it easy. Constant vigilance against C's limitations means you are wasting a lot of time that could be applied to problem solving of the task at hand.
Wow! There's an apologist answer if I ever heard one. I have been an embedded programmer for 20 years, and there is no question that C is too hard.
people with an insane, visceral hatred of Microsoft are a small minority.
Actually, I think these people are a majority, but only a minority are knowledgeable enough and willing to expend the effort to do anything about it.
I'm not a fan of Microsoft,
Google is allowing the carriers to run amok with Android
The spotty support for this feature or that feature is a real problem.
The crappy Android devices are a real problem, too.
Classic astroturfing; try to emphasize with audience and then attack the competition.
What rock have you been living under?
Probably a non-technical one. IEEE and ANSI would probably also fall under the little-known category to them.
Do tell! Did you use a blue police box or was it a modified delorean, or some other method? Any stock tips?
Obviously a modified DeLorean, as a police box would be way to pedestrian for a Romney supporter. However the police will be happy to see that none of the 99% ever get close enough to smudge your DeLorean.
An independent internet is exactly what will happen when the need drives it. The internet is just a communication network, and communication networks have a long history of going underground when forced to by oppression.
Wish I had a mod point. This is very insightful.
All great discoveries are made by mistake. -- Young
