On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 01:43:35PM +0800, 明覺 wrote: > > > > What about XML, YAML, HTML, javascript, and such? No more browser? No > > more internet? :-) > Of course I will use all of them, I even use windows vista everyday > for playing games, that's my user role; for my programmer role, I will > use Xml and html, for they are data files, not programming languages, > I will try to write my own brower in C++, and use a subset of C++ to > be the dhtml programming language instead of javascript. > >
OK. I'll bite :) 15 years ago, I studied a couple of terms of evening classes in programming in C. One of the exercises thrown at us was: Build a reservation system for a 10 seat commuter aeroplane. Small, simple, defined - but harder than it looks on paper. Go for it: from your posts, you have the programming credentials. Try the following exercise: Build one in PHP / webforms (or Javascript) - "web languages", anyway. Build one in pure Perl. Build one in C or C++ writing to a MySQL/Postgres database. Build one in C / C++ alone. Build one in assembler. Shouldn't take you long. That'll give you a much better feel for how/why different approaches have their strengths and weaknesses. It will mean you're porting code that should be familiar and that you can read and understand because you wrote it. Its a limited problem: the real world is harder. For extra credit, put it up on a website somewhere and submit the URL back here for the code to be analysed by others here. Come back when you're done. Then decide whether your ideas are feasible. AndyC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
