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Comment entropy (Score 2) 109

Wasn't there some conjecture some time ago that entropy decreased inside a black hole, and that our universe corresponded to a time-reversed version of a star collapsing into a black hole? Which of course would be interesting because the "arrow of time" would point two opposite ways in the "meta-universe".

Comment Re:Slashdot proves it! (Score 1) 249

I have a better idea. Why not let app developers create web-sites with information about their apps? Then, e.g., Google could index those web-sites, and this would allow the user to quickly find the app they need. Also, Google's safe search could prevent users from installing the apps they do not want.

Comment multi-stage compilation (Score 1) 427

In a multi-stage compilation process, libraries could generate readable C++ code based on (type-)requirements of a user-program.
This could be an alternative to template (meta)-programming, which would (I suppose) result in much easier to read programs and possibly better understandable error messages.

Have you considered such a compilation model? And if so, why do you consider templates to be a better choice?

Comment Header files (Score 1) 427

Many programmers (including me) are flat out annoyed by the need to maintain header files (they are useful for documentation purposes only, but there are automated tools for extracting this type of information). Also, there seems to be no technical necessity to use header files (other than helping compiler/linker implementors).

Why are header files still (a non-optional) part of the standard?

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