Comment Re:Breakfast? (Score 1) 460
...you take one sparrow, pluck it. Then you add another... after about 1000 THEN you have a meal. End of story.
...you take one sparrow, pluck it. Then you add another... after about 1000 THEN you have a meal. End of story.
My hp48gx has been my calculator of choice ever since I first got it. Still works fine.
The benefit of this:
quicker to use, 1 second startup
portable, its a physical device
easily upload results to the PC when needed
I also use python/SAGE...
For a given definition of "compiled" most high level languages are technically running compiled code: Java/Python certainly are. (Except HTTP which is a protocol...)
From the perspective of a CPU, everything is interpreted. If your problem requires a solution that is best expressed in Python or Ruby etc then go for it. If you need extra speed right now then dig further - and remember that in at least a year's time your optimised code might not be so valuable. Just about all high level languages can make use of a module written in assembly via some kind of call interface.
High level languages provide abstraction layers to simplify producing a system that addresses some need. It's easier to justify writing a web application in PHP than assembly. OTOH there are certainly niches where C or even assembly could be a better solution, eg serving seldom changing files via http.
Your mileage may vary.
... Isn't threatening to kill someone a crime in itself?
You haven't helped raise children, have you? Oh, dear, if you want to see complex and buggy, try working with a 12 year old who usually lives with their mother.
sounds like my previous manager...
The so called Y2Kaboom... the reason it was a non-event was that many people had worked to resolve as much of the problem as they could. We had started in around March 1998 so for us this was old news. By the time our management had started freaking out we had already completed a preliminary audit.
I had some people predict all sorts of gloom and doom... they bought extra food and waited for the apocalypse. A lot of magazines were filled with doomsday predictions etc.
For what its worth... if we hadn't fixed these:
security system - doors wouldn't have been able to be opened/closed using swipe cards
lighting/airconditioning wouldn't have turned on - (Summer in Australia with no AC)
some Microsoft access databases wouldn't have tracked contracts correctly
some Microsoft Excel spreadsheets used in reporting system gave faulty results
some clunky old accounting systems that would have truncated data on input (retired these instead of fixing)
a few telemetry systems wouldn't have turned two sites' pumps on/off
we would have had an "interesting" January 2000.
2.4 statute miles of surgical tubing at Yale U. = 1 I.V.League
