Re: multi-core software

2009-06-07 Thread Joshua Cranmer
Jon Harrop wrote: No. Most programmers still care about performance and performance means mutable state. [ Citation needed ]. Most programmers I've met could care less about performance. -- Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth --

Re: what's so difficult about namespace?

2008-11-26 Thread Joshua Cranmer
Xah Lee wrote: In many languages, they don't have namespace and is often a well known sour point for the lang. For example, Scheme has this problem up till R6RS last year. PHP didn't have namespace for the past decade till about this year. Javascript, which i only have working expertise, didn't

OT: OT posts [was Re: proliferation of computer languages]

2008-07-22 Thread Joshua Cranmer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: • many says i'm posting off topic posts. In recent years they start to say i'm posting tangentially relevant posts. That's not correct. In fact, there are huge number of blatantly off-topics posts by regulars that spawn off from threads, happens regularly. The topics

Re: blogs, longbets.org, and education of sociology

2008-05-25 Thread Joshua Cranmer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For about the past 10 years, i have been concerned in the programing community's level of education in social issues. [ Adjusts killfile as necessary. ] I have found that recently, a news that would be of interest to programers. There was a bet at longbets.org (run