The End of Native Code? 1173
psycln asks: "An average PC nowadays holds enough power to run complex software programmed in an interpreted language which is handled by runtime virtual machines, or just-in-time compiled. Particular to Windows programmers, the announcement of MS-Windows Vista's system requirements means that future Windows boxes will laugh at the memory/processor requirements of current interpreted/JIT compiled languages (e.g. .NET, Java , Python, and others). Regardless of the negligible performance hit compared to native code, major software houses, as well as a lot of open-source developers, prefer native code for major projects even though interpreted languages are easier to port cross-platform, often have a shorter development time, and are just as powerful as languages that generate native code. What does the Slashdot community think of the current state of interpreted/JIT compiled languages? Is it time to jump in the boat of interpreted/JIT compiled languages? Do programmers feel that they are losing - an arguably needed low-level - control when they do interpreted languages? What would we be losing besides more gray hair?"
What else (Score:3, Funny)
No, wait, too late.
Re:What?!?!? (Score:5, Funny)
-1 flamebait (Score:4, Funny)
On the subject of loosers... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:What?!?!? (Score:5, Funny)
fun fact: slashdot is written in an interpreted language (perl).
wait a minute, the kid might be onto something ...
Re:On the subject of loosers... (Score:3, Funny)
I was beginning to think I had gone mad, or perhaps there was committee that changed the spelling of "lose" without telling me. I honestly haven't seen anyone spell it correctly in months. It's starting annoy me as much as people can't tell they're from there from their.
GRAMMAR NAZI (Score:3, Funny)
- your gray hairs (unless you can command them somehow)
- control
- the big game
- your way
List of things you could be loosing:
- the hounds
- your belt
- an arrow
- responsibility
Re:-1 flamebait (Score:4, Funny)
Emacs.
Re:On the subject of loosers... (Score:2, Funny)
"Cry 'havoc!' and let slip the hares of war!"
Sorry, someone had to say it. :-)
Re:On the subject of loosers... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:On the subject of loosers... (Score:5, Funny)
I loose my gray hair when I get off work. The ponytail and smoothly coiffed beard are necessary to convey the appropriate image in the office, but in the privacy of my home I let the beard go bushy and the tresses bounce about my shoulders.
But maybe this is more information than you really wanted to know...
Re:On the subject of loosers... (Score:5, Funny)
I admire people like the parent poster who have the courage of their convictions and are willing to stand up in front of the crowd and tell someone off when they thing that's called for. So let me express my deep admiration to you, err... Mr Anonymous Coward.
Teh funnay! (Score:3, Funny)
No, stupid programming maybe... yes.
Re:On the subject of looses... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What else (Score:3, Funny)
Re:On the subject of loosers... (Score:2, Funny)
Or in keeping with this thread, we could start calling them "loosers".
Punctation! (Score:2, Funny)
That's
Java and C# are garbage, collected;
Euro-English (Score:5, Funny)
whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than
German which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations,
Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some
room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in plan that
would be known as "Euro-English".
In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the
sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of
the"k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less
letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
"fotograf" 20% shorter.
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be
ekspekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are
possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters,
which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre
that the horible mes of the silent "e"s in the language is disgraseful,
and they should go away.
By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th"
with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be
dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be
aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.
After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor
trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. Ze
drem vil finali kum tru!
Re:Analogies suck, but... (Score:3, Funny)
By what metric? Expressiveness? Ease of implementation? Ease of maintenance? Error rate? Because, last I checked, low-level languages like C fail on all those points compared to a higher-level language.
It's a little unfair to pick on the low-level language programmers. There'd be more of them here to defend themselves but they're all so busy looking for memory leaks and buffer overflows.New binaries for every architecture (Score:3, Funny)
Are you going to compile new binaries for every architecture and combination of cores?
As a Gentoo user that is an emphatic yes!
Re:Have you tried coding anything hard? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Have you tried coding anything hard? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Euro-English (Score:2, Funny)