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Comment Re:Hopefully this will fix the completely STUPID W (Score 1) 27

by luca (#63115208) Attached to: Google Combines Maps and Waze Teams Amid Pressure To Cut Costs
I can actually use waze with android auto, but its android auto adaptation sucks: no way to change navigation options (avoid tolls/highways), no easy way to search for gas stations along the route, no way to share your location/route with a friend. You can do all of that and more with the standalone application and with google maps on android auto. Pity that google maps generates far worse routes (i.e. to go from point A to point B 50 meters apart it took me on a 11km scenic route in the mountains).

Comment What a piece of shit (Score 1) 90

by luca (#60523858) Attached to: Oracle's Plan to Keep Java Developers from Leaving for Rust and Kotlin
I think I've been spoiled by freepascal and lazarus, but recently I had to do a small project with java and, oh boy, what a piece of shit. Too verbose, only a class per file, gui design is a joke. The old joke "eat shit, a billion flies can’t be wrong" applies perfectly to Java (and to the Tiobe index BTW).

Comment I tried to read TFA but.. (Score 1) 40

by luca (#59122446) Attached to: VW Recalls 679K Cars With Faulty Micro Switch That 'May Roll Away'
this is what I get "Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to the EU market. We continue to identify technical compliance solutions that will provide all readers with our award-winning journalism.".
It must be a really good newspaper if it has to protect itself from evil EU users.

Submission + - Free Pascal Compiler 3.0.0 is out, adds support for 16 bit MS-DOS and 64 bit iOS (freepascal.org) 1

Submitted by Halo1
Halo1 writes: Twenty-three years ago, development started on the first version of the Turbo Pascal and later also Delphi-compatible Free Pascal Compiler, for OS/2 no less. Two decades and change later, the new Free Pascal Compiler 3.0.0 release still supports OS/2, along with a host of older and newer platforms ranging from MS-DOS on an 8086 to the latest Linux and iOS running on AArch64. On the language front, the new features include support for type helpers, codepage-aware strings and a utility to automatically generate JNI bridges for Pascal code. In the mean time, development on the next versions continues, with support for generic functions, an optional LLVM code generator backend and full support for ISO and Extended Pascal progressing well.

Comment Re:Modula-3 FTW! (Score -1) 492

by luca (#48899765) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Is Pascal Underrated?

The problem with C, C++, Python or Java is not that they are bad, but that they provide nothing of value to offset the cost of maintaining a separate toolchain, training programmers, building libraries, etc. What can you do in C, C++, Python, Java that you can't do in Free Pascal? Why do we need yet four more languages, that have no particularly useful features?

I used C++ in some college courses, and felt that my productivity went down by about 50% compared to Lazarus, just because of all the extra typing that with Lazarus the IDE did for me, and the reduced readability: using punctuation to enclose blocks doesn't work as well as clearly delimiting them with words.

FTFY

Comment The process that Juncker loves (Score 1) 219

by luca (#48293823) Attached to: Is Public Debate of Trade Agreements Against the Public Interest?
The newly appointed president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker will love this agreement, especially the way it's being negotiated. He candidly admitted in a Spiegel interview how the European Union works:

We decide on something, then put the in the room and wait a while to see what happens, If there will be no great cry and no uprisings, because most people have no idea what has been decided, then we move on -. Step by step, until there is no turning back

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