Silicon valley was built 60 years ago. What was true then is not necessarily true today, despite what the article claims.
Tell you what, try to get a job as a developer in Google and Microsoft without a CS degree or 10 years experience and then get back to me.
On CS-as-a-major, Cappelli says, "If you look at most of the people who are in computer programming, for example, they have no IT degree-they just learned how to program. Maybe they had a couple of courses in it, maybe they were self-taught.
I've worked with six software companies over my career and in all of them the vast majority of programmers have a CS degree. Mind you this is advanced software development. I do not doubt that people out there developing web sites never got a CS degree.
Rampant corruption seems to be leading to terrible quality control.
We'll give you a grand if you stop posting this --Roscosmos management
You must be one of those idiots who moans and groans when GDP grows by 3% which is such a small percentage of total and "only" 1% over the historical average.
Of course someone who understands math knows that 3% GDP growth is 50% better than historical 2% GDP growth.
Same withe electricity. We are not about to go around ripping out perfectly functional generating plants be them gas, oil, carbon or nuclear. All we can do is change installs.
For those renewables are kicking butt. Over the next fifty years as old plants are decommissioned we will wake up one day to a world where >50% of generated electricity is non-fossil fuel based.
CSMonitor has an article which mentions that labor costs are rising 15-20% a year in china, and they're up to $6/hour average - barely under US minimum wage.
The figures in that article seem to be all wrong. It looks like all numbers should have been Renminbi and somehow got a dollar sign in front of them instead. Current average manufacturing hourly wage in China is around 4 CNY per hour, which is a far cry from the predicted $6 an hour from the CSMonitor article.
Except that sane people tend not to go crazy without indication. This should allow you to stop the majority of attacks if you keep an ear to the ground rather than waste so much time patting down grannies.
Huh?
Swift is a strongly typed language, though it uses type inference to reduce the amount of characters typed by the developer. Types can be provided explicitly, and for numeric types, specific sized elements such as UInt8 or Int32 can be used.The type engine also provides for Optional valued types; an optional value can be dereferenced with a ? or ! depending on whether the value is expected to exist. The collections in Swift provide literal support for both arrays (with []) and dictionaries/maps (with [:]) and can include generic types.
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Swift is a strongly-typed language by default; however, it also uses type inference which again reduces code length for developers. The strong type attribute is always in place unless specified by special keyword weak.
Lambda functions are awesome? were you seriously being held back by having to name the function before passing it on as a parameter?
Immutability makes you more productive? in what way?
curious mind wants to know.
It's a combination of fashion, libraries, how big is the improvement over the nearest commonly used competitor, commercial backing, luck, and yes technical merit.
For example, Perl is a language that succeeded on the basis of its powerful string manipulation primitives, which is technical merit, and in spite of its many other technical deficiencies.
..and do you know why is interpreted? because it was supposed to run in countless cable boxes which never did. I know, because I was heard the language design and spec in the pre-WWW days.
Nothing you said there contradicts what are said.
"Fast" is such a vague term as to be meaningless
If only someone could invent an objective measure of speed of execution, using a newly developed unit which we shall call "microseconds" and use that to compare the performance.
On a more serious note, I agree that for many applications time is not that important, but there are many others for which it is. The rendering engine in the browser is one. Any app running in a battery constrained phone is another.
The reason why companies develop new languages is because the ones coming from academia are focused on the wrong things. Product development requires an industrial strength, strongly typed (for the most part) fast language.
Projects coming from academia are interpreted, JVM based, functional, obsessed with (im)mutability, closures, and lambda functions.
This is not to say those things are not nice, however they are not central to a programming language as used in large scale industrial systems.
they could quite literally abolish tuition forever if they wanted to.
You know that essentially they have, right? You pay a much as you can reasonably afford.
Perl, Lisp, Python, Haskell, Javascript, ever heard of them?
Are they "vanishingly few" or rather the most common non-statically typed/untyped languages out there?
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