On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 10:35:03AM +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > One bad thing about Visual Studio (as I'm using it to design something related > to Linux filesystems) is that IT HAS A SERVICE PACK! Microsoft Service Packs > is a euphimism to them saying "We have a very serious problem with our > software!" >I'm only starting to learn Visual Studio (previous C/C++ tools I used > before were ancient Turbo C and C++; Borland C++ 5, and GCC - the best as I > can use K&R and Stroustrup's books without fail here - so this is the first > time I'd be using the RAD tools of M$) and yet here comes the service packs. > Of course, there are more bad things in micro$oft crapware.
if I may repeat myself, it's capitalism and Wall Street that wants MS to put products out the door even before they're really ready. I hope the MS bug doesn't cause it to produce broken code or something like that! > Haven't heard or seen if Python can be used for hardware manipulation. it can't, natively, and that is not the purpose. now C can't do that according to K&R, unless your compiler supports registers psuedo-variables, and maybe inline assembly... > while Java gets away with it as it is run via > a virtual machine, which provides a copy of the underlying hardware (thus > shielding the programmer from worrying about the hardware they're running on). right about the shielding, but if you're talking about 'underlying hardware copying' then that's not Java, that's VMWARE or somesuch. > I'm not sure of the other caveats of Python, but I think it can be used to > create a GUI app (I'm not into GUI so I'm not sure...) it can. I'm curious about it but I'm not too hot on event-driven programming so... > It's quite unfortunate that though Zope is more adept to web pages with > dynamic content over Apache, it's not yet quite popular. Of course. If you're serving static content, do it in C for high performance (Apache or Squid). Python is not too hot on the web simply because it's a GENERAL PURPOSE language, unlike say PHP which was made for the web. Java on the other hand was concocted for 'network computing', if you recall the heady days of 1995. In fact, back then, they thought applets would the The Application. Perl became the de-facto CGI language due to its low barrier to entry for non-programmers. (IMHO). Right now I'm becoming a Python zealot because, in the words of eric pareja, it makes programming FUN AGAIN :) _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
