Benjamin L.Russell wrote:
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:46:00 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A paintbrush is easy to use, but hard to use well.
An interesting analogy. Then, in the style of a verbal analogy exam
question:
C++ : paintbrush :: Haskell : ?
C++ : paintbrush :: Haskell : gimp or
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Albert Y. C. Lai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Benjamin L.Russell wrote:
C++ : paintbrush :: Haskell : ?
C++ : paintbrush :: Haskell : gimp or photoshop ?
[...]
C++ : paintbrush :: Haskell : OpenGL ?
[...]
C++ : paintbrush :: Haskell : graphics software used
For the record, C++ (and a crippled scripting language call MEL that
makes C look good) were used in the Maya 3D graphics software used for
the Lord of the Rings movies [1]:
Weta Digital utilized Maya® as the core 3D animation software
technology throughout the process of creating digital
At first, make sure you have Bjarne Stroustrup book
(very important: last edition). If there's anything good
in C++, it's there. Look also at his homepage:
http://www.research.att.com/~bs/homepage.html
I got the third edition and read it a couple of times... It's not that
I'm lacking knowledge
Hello Mauricio,
Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 2:23:55 PM, you wrote:
Well, one thing I miss from C++ is the idea of acquiring resources in
constructors and releasing them in destructors, as explained here:
(Haskell uses that in 'with...' functions, like 'withFile', but the
syntax in C++
Bulat Ziganshin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Mauricio,
Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 2:23:55 PM, you wrote:
Well, one thing I miss from C++ is the idea of acquiring resources
in constructors and releasing them in destructors, as explained
here:
(Haskell uses that in 'with...'
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:46:00 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A paintbrush is easy to use, but hard to use well.
An interesting analogy. Then, in the style of a verbal analogy exam
question:
C++ : paintbrush :: Haskell : ?
Is C++ really easy to use?
-- Benjamin L. Russell
Hello Benjamin,
Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 8:13:55 AM, you wrote:
Maybe this is just me, but if I had to choose a tool, I'd choose one
that would be easy to use well.
and what tool you choose in 80's? :)
--
Best regards,
Bulatmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bulat == Bulat Ziganshin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Bulat Hello Benjamin,
Bulat Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 8:13:55 AM, you wrote:
Maybe this is just me, but if I had to choose a tool, I'd choose one
that would be easy to use well.
Bulat and what tool you choose in 80's? :)
A
Hello Colin,
Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 12:56:30 PM, you wrote:
Bulat and what tool you choose in 80's? :)
A TARDIS.
and why it not ruled the world? :)
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Best regards,
Bulatmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Achim Schneider wrote:
What kind of things, barring coding on Haskell-less platforms and
library interfaces would you choose to do in C++?
transactional database servers
HTML renderers
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On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Benjamin L. Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 23:08:06 +0200, Achim Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
What kind of things, barring coding on Haskell-less platforms and
library interfaces would you choose to do in C++?
I'm asking 'cos
Benjamin L.Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Read the following uncensored interview with Bjarne Stroustrup, the
designer of C++, and then tell me what you think:
An Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup
http://www.ariel.com.au/jokes/An_Interview_with_Bjarne_Stroustrup.html
As I read it the
Mauricio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At first, make sure you have Bjarne Stroustrup book
(very important: last edition). If there's anything good
in C++, it's there. Look also at his homepage:
http://www.research.att.com/~bs/homepage.html
I got the third edition and read it a couple of
What kind of things do you prefer? Databases, science,
math, web?
At first, make sure you have Bjarne Stroustrup book
(very important: last edition). If there's anything good
in C++, it's there. Look also at his homepage:
http://www.research.att.com/~bs/homepage.html
Bjarne is the guy who
On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 23:08:06 +0200, Achim Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
What kind of things, barring coding on Haskell-less platforms and
library interfaces would you choose to do in C++?
I'm asking 'cos I'm learning C++ and can't get the proper motivation to
do any program I can think of
On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:50:45 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The trouble is that C++ is a tool that's hard to use well. But that's
why they pay us the big bucks, right?
Interesting argument. At first I thought that the following
uncensored interview with Bjarne Stroustrup was a joke, but your
G'day aoll.
Quoting Benjamin L.Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Interesting argument. At first I thought that the following
uncensored interview with Bjarne Stroustrup was a joke, but your
argument makes it seem all the more plausible:
That's not quite what I meant. What I meant is that Visual
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