When you say “app”, I assume you’re talking about mobile; is that correct?
Even if you consider all non-server software, even stuff that runs on
desktops, I think it’s still pretty miniscule (I don’t have numbers to back
it up).
In my opinion, the reason that open source software has made so
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 07:44:35PM -0600, Gillian Densmore wrote:
Speculative Q:
Anyone care to speculate why Open Source apps not have gotten much traction
out side some exceptions?
I ask because it'd seem like a business wouldn't want to use something
where they couldn't see the code (for
yup...
"where I'm from, the point of digging is not freedom from
digging!" fits much of this crew pretty well!
I'll see your Snobol and raise you Griswolds next great thing: Icon
!
For those of us who forget, sometimes, to laugh at
Back in the day, Snobol was one of my favorite languages.. I used it
once for a language processing program for a group at IBM, Yorktown.
Joe
On 7/13/15 11:12 AM, Steve Smith wrote:
yup...
where I'm from, the point of digging is not freedom from
digging! fits much of this crew pretty
It's analagous to pets - you raise them (sometimes) from bottle-feeding and
they live to old age - and they die long before you are ready. Sure, there are
the occasional turtles and parrots that outlive their owners - COBOL has long
outlived Grace Hopper - but most computer languages come and
APL was the first actual interactive language that I had the pleasure of using.
It sure beat card readers!
SmallTalk was fun in that once programmers made the conceptual jump to objects,
they really enjoyed programming in it. Maybe it was the sparsity of the
language as compared to C++ that
In my case, I was asked to help the Comptrollers (Air Force speak for
accountants) to optimize the code because they were using an IBM emulator on a
Honeywell 6800 and their APL programs were bogging down the entire system.
Oh, what tangled web we create, when first we try to emulate - or,
For those of us who forget, sometimes, to laugh at JavaScript, the World's
Weirdest Language (well, the was Snobol (StriNg Oriented and symBOlic
Language):
http://cube-drone.com/comics/c/relentless-persistence
(Sorry if its sorta an in-joke)
-- Owen
I programmed in APL while at Xerox in the 70's. Although dangerous it
was really fast to program in, especially as a domain specific language, so
to speak. It got so that if you couldn't do a one-liner for anything you
wanted to do, you'd be disappointed!
Interestingly enough, it was the
One could say:
thise.Day(Pine)
print.out(arg YANFL);
but the joke might not compile.
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Parks, Raymond rcpa...@sandia.gov wrote:
In my case, I was asked to help the Comptrollers (Air Force speak for
accountants) to optimize the code because they were using an
“Having said that well I for one can only speculate why java has/had a history
of not caching on”
Wot?
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
Btw, Web Assembly is just mimicking what .NET (and Mono) have been able to do
for 10 years.
From: Friam
Having said that well I for one can only speculate why java has/had a
history of not caching on. Though I am amused how the web has managed to go
full circle.
Why do I say that, it seems as if the goal to applets and node is simillar
to: DHTML
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_HTML
DHTML,
Speculative Q:
Anyone care to speculate why Open Source apps not have gotten much traction
out side some exceptions?
I ask because it'd seem like a business wouldn't want to use something
where they couldn't see the code (for instance).
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