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Horse manure?
"Geir Harris Hedemark" wrote in message ... "Ted Byers" writes: It is up to the individual to get advice from his primary health care provider as to what the daily recommended intake ought to be for each In my case, my doctor also tries to sell me books and stories. *grumble* He _will_ be swapped for someone else if I actually need serious medical care. This presupposes there are doctors available who are taking on new patients. My diabetes is being taken care of by the specialist who made the diagnosis yeas ago because I have yet to find a doctor in this area who is taking on new patients. That is debatable. I don't mind C either. Like all languages, there are nasty synactic corners, but overall, it is the most useful language I have studied, with Perl being a close second. Perl is nice for small scale stuff that needs to be done in a hurry. We were in for quite a ride when we tried to do a 2000+ line publication engine in it. Is that all? ;-) The smallest commercial application I have worked on required 20,000+ LOC, while 100,000 is more typical. You must have had quite the library to be able to do something with so little code! Come to think of it, it seems to me that the library that comes with the latest version of Perl is quite large: a great many more features than anythng shipped with any C++ compiler. I cut my teeth on Simula. Ole Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard were some of my tutors. That may have caused my innate hate of all things C++-ish. ;-) While I DO do comparisons of languages, for the purpose of multiparadigm development, I tend to avoid language wars since every computer programming language I have seen has its uses. EVEN VB has a role as a pwerful scripting language for MS Office. But it doesn't have a significant role elsewhere, IMHO. [snip] painful to adapt to Java. Yes, I know both Java and C++ are Turing complete, so anything that can be done in one can be done in the other in theory, but that sidesteps the important issue practicability. Yes, they are theoretically equivalent, but not necessarily in the same time frame. Yes, everything that can be done in C++ can be done in assembler, but the project I finished last year (after three years, and six man-years of effort) would probably not have been completed in my lifetime had anyone been silly enough to try to develop it in assembler. But that project has so far brought to the company for which I developed it over $800,000 since it was finished, and at least another $700,000 is expected from it this year. As a point of fact, I am looking at a new database development that will likely use Java applets for client side processing and PHP+SQL for server I don't envy you that task. Applets are notoriously hard to do in such a way that they actually work consistently with what passes for browsers in Redmond and elsewhere. Alas, my options are limited. I like VBScript and JScript even less than VB. And ActiveX controls in a web page are problematic since so many of them introduce major security risks. What else is there for client side processing? While I don't LIKE the idea, I see no opton other than to test for the version of the Java runtime on the client machine and, if it is too old, direct the user to keep the version of the runtime he's using up to date. At least with Java, I don't have to worry about whether or not the user is running Windows or Linux or something else. Cheers, Ted |
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