Again I told you several time, do you think that a guy do not understand what is a pointer because he does not know how to write it in C? Give a chance to professionals to learn. We are not talking about explaining what is a pointer, but explaining the potential problems and challenges
With your reasoning, I should stop programming because there are so many things that I did not learn in school and I would not have no chance to learn from this community. So with that reasoning I should better stop working in Smalltalk and look for another language! Stef > sure sure.. > but guys... i really doubt that i would want to see people poking with > NB who don't even have a > basic understanding of malloc(ed) memory management and working with > memory buffers & pointers. > For such sort of people, best what i can offer is "go back when you > will learn basics first". > > Of course, it would be cool if NB could work even for "dummies", but i > am thinking , as any technology, > before you start using it without shooting yourself into foot, you > should do some homework first. > > > On 7 November 2012 08:09, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> wrote: >> + 1 >> >> On Nov 7, 2012, at 9:43 AM, Camillo Bruni wrote: >> >>> Just copy paste the thing you posted in the NBBasicExamples and we're >>> done. A couple of examples which show common problems will help >>> certainly help people to understand. >>> >>> Plus we should convert the examples into tests so they are always run! >>> >>> On 2012-11-07, at 09:28, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On Nov 6, 2012, at 11:06 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 6 November 2012 17:57, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> This is clearly something to add to the documentation of NativeBoost. >>>>>> Igor can you do it? >>>>> >>>>> I already have a description of memory management API for NB in docs. >>>>> And telling how manage external memory is... ahem.. not really fits into >>>>> docs :) >>>>> Maybe a tutor or something. >>>> >>>> think not technical but user! >>>> Id o not give a shit if what helps me is called a doc or a tutorial. >>>> I care that it helps me fixing my problem. >>>> And what I see is that the example of Max is a nice example of a recurring >>>> problem >>>> people face. >>>> >>>> Stef >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Best regards, >>>>> Igor Stasenko. >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> > > > > -- > Best regards, > Igor Stasenko. >
