Forgot your password?
typodupeerror

Comment OO design inspiration (Score 1) 427

I was always curious, why did you choose Simula as inspiration for OO design? Many, including Alan Kay himself, are believing this is wrong approach for original object oriented design in languages, which are followed by Java, C# and many more. Why didn't you used Smalltalk or even CLOS as basis for more dynamic and introspective system (Common Lisp compilers are proving CLOS dynamism doesn't have to be barrier for creating fast and optimized code) and do you think Objective C did the right thing?

Submission + - MELT, a GCC compiler plugin framework, reached 1.0 version (gcc-melt.org)

karijes writes: MELT is a high-level domain specific language for extending, customizing and exploring the Gnu Compiler Collection. It targets advanced GCC users, giving them ability to hook on almost any GCC stage during compilation or interpretation phases. This release brings a lot of new things, described on release note. Details about the project you can find at project site.

Comment Re:Replace X? (Score 1) 193

What I hate about Wayland is trolling community around it, where guys like you have no clue about the subject. First of all, there _are_ things that are preventing wayland to implement remote renderer, which showed failed GSoC project (http://www.jakemp.org/posts/2011/8/14/turns-out-its-not-as-simple-as-i-thought.html).

The second thing is how Wayland protocol _is not tested in real world_ as X, so no one, even developers knows will be more efficient than X protocol. So please, less trolling and more education.

Submission + - Evil, almost full Vim implementation in Emacs, reaches 1.0 version (gitorious.org)

karijes writes: Evil is a new Emacs major mode intended to implement full Vim emulation for Emacs editor and it reached first stable release. Evil implements many Vim features and has support for plugins, so there is port for rails.vim, NERDCommenter and mapleader among others. Details about this release you can find on mailing list.
Windows

Submission + - Aero Glass UI no more on Windows 8 (theverge.com)

closer2it writes: Microsoft has revealed that it has made some big changes to its desktop UI for Windows 8, which includes moving away from Aero Glass — the UI first introduced with Vista. According to the company, this means visual changes that include "flattening surfaces, removing reflections, and scaling back distracting gradients." Despite all of these changes with the interface, the company doesn't appear to be worried about the issue of "learnability." Instead, Microsoft believes that with a little help it won't take long for users to adapt to the new operating system.

Comment Re:what wrong with (Score 1) 523

> ...if it's more complex for the parser to understand, it's more complex for a human to understand

Really? As example in C++: "vector<vector<int>> x". Easy to understaind, hell to parse. Or in scheme: "((foo (baz)) foo)"; easy to parse, hell to understaind ...at least to untrained brain and eyes ;)

Slashdot Top Deals

My idea of roughing it turning the air conditioner too low.

Working...