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Why C is terrible, and Java/C# are Great

I know this wasn't your overall point, but for the record: I hear this a lot, but I have seen no indication that it is really true. As long as you have competent programmers and intelligent library selection, you can develop fairly rapidly in C++, or any other language. With bad programmers in...
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- Post #84
- Jun 13, 2010
- Forum: Programming
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MS vs. Google: What patents are they claiming, exactly?

If any of the big companies were as confident as you about that, it would have been done a long, long time ago. Besides, that sort of suit might be just what would trigger a massive patent war. As for those companies "paying up", I don't see it. So far, HTC is in litigation, and Canonical is...
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- Post #10
- May 7, 2010
- Forum: Open Source
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If You Use Linux Read This! - Maybe You Don't Know

And when do you expect this to start kicking in for all of the distros that have been around for over a decade?
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- Post #63
- May 4, 2010
- Forum: Open Source
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64bit OS - who actually needs it?

I'm well aware of that (I'm actually an Ubuntu user as well), it's just that a frequently have to use Windows for many tasks, and since I've never had anything not work in 64-bit (Linux or Windows), I pretty much do 64-bit everything.
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- Post #27
- May 3, 2010
- Forum: Operating Systems
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64bit OS - who actually needs it?

It's a simple cost vs. benefit problem. All it costs me to run 64-bit Windows/Linux is exactly what it would cost me to run 32-bit Windows/Linux (I have personally never encountered any problems running any of my apps). On the other hand, if I stuck with 32-bit, I wouldn't be able to use a...
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- Post #14
- May 3, 2010
- Forum: Operating Systems
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If You Use Linux Read This! - Maybe You Don't Know

Hear, hear. Installing any operating system is a chore, Linux or Windows. The idea that Windows is any easier to install than Linux is a myth.
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- Post #58
- Apr 25, 2010
- Forum: Open Source
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Programming languages for total newbs.

I don't think anyone was arguing that C++ was a good choice because it's important to learn memory management. I certainly wasn't. Actually, no reasonably well-done software project using C++ should be using manual memory management at all (anymore). Smart Pointers are pretty much ubiquitous...
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- Post #47
- Apr 14, 2010
- Forum: Programming
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Firefox & Opera on Ubuntu 9.10 your thoughts?

That's interesting. I'll have to look into it.
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- Post #19
- Apr 13, 2010
- Forum: Open Source
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Firefox & Opera on Ubuntu 9.10 your thoughts?

Oh really? [root@Ares pdusen]# pacman -Sy chromium :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date archlinuxfr is up to date resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... Targets (1): chromium-4.0.249.43-1...
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- Post #16
- Apr 12, 2010
- Forum: Open Source
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Programming languages for total newbs.

http://www.cppreference.com/wiki/ It's all there.
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- Post #27
- Apr 12, 2010
- Forum: Programming
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Programming languages for total newbs.

I assure you, I read the OP. The fact that you have a different opinion means nothing.
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- Post #24
- Apr 12, 2010
- Forum: Programming
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Programming languages for total newbs.

C++ does all of those things, if you use the STL.
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- Post #19
- Apr 12, 2010
- Forum: Programming
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Programming languages for total newbs.

If he's a beginner programmer, he should be writing beginner programmer programs (Hello World, Counting Change, etc...), none of which requires pointers or classes. As for your claim about error messages: Yes, C/C++ error messages aren't the greatest, but there's nothing terrible at the...
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- Post #15
- Apr 12, 2010
- Forum: Programming
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Anyone psyched for VS 2010?

I'm looking forward to it primarily for all the C++0x features being added (MS is being surprisingly agile about that.)
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- Post #15
- Apr 12, 2010
- Forum: Programming
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Programming languages for total newbs.

I agree that you should start with C++. It is a bit challenging, but programming is _supposed_ to be challenging. In my experience, people who start off with more abstracted languages (BASIC, Java, etc...) tend to have a hard time understanding what is going on under the hood down the road...
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- Post #13
- Apr 12, 2010
- Forum: Programming

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