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Comment Re:Huh? Why are we trying to protect lemmings? (Score -1) 334

have you used a Unix system already? or sandboxes? There are many ways to protect a computer of a user's wrongdoing. What probably makes you think otherwise is the fact that you've been using Win XP and Win 2000. Win Vista is already much better at it with UAC. The OS is responsible for its own security. There should be no antivirus at all on the market. Actually, this is what is going to happen in the future, as you can see moves by Microsoft to securize their OS and at the same time provide free "antivirus" (which actually does nothing). Did you know there is no antivirus on Unix?

Comment Re:"functional programming languages can beat C" (Score -1) 502

that's obviously not true.

For "small challenge" however, i do agree that C can always be the fastest language. This comes from the fact that you understand the C compiler very well and how it can translate to assembly language.

Now look at programs that deal with complex algorithms on complex data structures. You have to understand how the compiler will optimize the generated assembly code of these complex algorithms. Now guess what? On many complex examples the assembly generated is way suboptimal. So what do you think? You can actually imagine a higher-level language that has a better compiler for this particular task. This language will lead to faster code than yours, no matter how good you are.

But does this happen in real world application? The answer is simply yes. Just have a look at the computer languages shootout and you will see that C is beaten on some tasks by *some* higher-level language. Most of the time the language is OCaml, which is a very very higher-level language than C.

Conclusion: what makes a language fast is not the language syntax or semantics, but the compiler

Comment Re:Best Advice is to Stand Out (Score -1) 372

I got hired in 2005. My first job was a contract job, salary was 120Kâ/year. No joking there. At that time, 120Kâ was approx 170KUSD. Instead of staying in your classroom smoking ganja, just get a job proactively and learn how to get most of the system. Not only you will get a job quickly, but you'll also get some kind of decent salary, exactly like i did. (No joking)

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