which replaces the need for typing.
Yeah no.
If you wanted to program for Windows, the main option was C then C++.
I think you've obviously forgotten about TurboPascal and QuickBASIC.
the naming conventions - sorry, americans seem not to bother that classes in C# are all lower case named, and for some idiotic reason: methods are Upper case. For a European - especially a German, that is a no go.
Wait, are you sure that's correct? I just double-checked, and what I found says that class names in C# follow the PascalCase convention, just like Java. I agree it's idiotic that C# uses PascalCase for method names. And I also very much agree that C# is inherently undesirable because it's from Microsoft.
laws to protect the absorbed
Don't let Landru find out about this.
You can't access a mutable shared data structure without locking it.
FTFY
That would be very processor intensive, as it would have to make lots of per-pixel-pair and per-timeslice computations per scanline, and do that several thousand times per second.
Nah, that would be a piece of cake for even a relatively low-end GPU.
[...] and say stuff like "this isn't news, that was easy".
I'm afraid you've gotten it backwards. spth did not say that it was "easy." They said that it "not a trivial task" — quite the opposite of easy.
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