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The primary thing I notice about fresh Java school grads is that there's nothing in their resume that tells me they can tackle hard problems. No pointers. No lambda functions. No backtracking. No first-class continuations. All the stuff that used to weed out people in CS programs is gone; that means I have to do the weeding. At least Javascript has brought some of that back.
Why does Ruby get its own color?
The event/callback/state machine model is a pain to program in, but at least you don't have race conditions on shared data.
Tell this to the patients that were killed by the Therac-25. It had a race condition even though it was an event-based system that didn't use true threads.
In other words, I have no reason to assign any meaning to these numbers.
Given the reaction to the previous article I don't know what this guy is even trying to do.
And why 6084? What is so special about that number?
6084 / 2 % 100 == 42
That is meaning enough.
This doesn't test the speed of generated code. I like to know which compiler produces faster code when looking at benchmarks.
He: Let's end it all, bequeathin' our brains to science. She: What?!? Science got enough trouble with their OWN brains. -- Walt Kelly
