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We must work together to make more ammo. ...nt
Authored by: Ian Al on Saturday, May 26 2012 @ 11:22 AM EDT
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Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid!

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  • Yes! - Authored by: tiger99 on Sunday, May 27 2012 @ 04:48 AM EDT
No, it is immensely good!
Authored by: greed on Saturday, May 26 2012 @ 12:42 PM EDT
Or anyone doing free stuff will be stuck with the GNU toolchain; MinGW should
still work. Which is highly command-line oriented.

And once you're used to telling a computer what to do, rather than having to
find out how to ask it what to do, maybe that "Login:" on a Linux text
console won't seem so intimidating any more.

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No, it is immensely good!
Authored by: DCFusor on Tuesday, May 29 2012 @ 07:39 PM EDT
I agree with tiger, but maybe not for the reasons you'd think. I made my
original fortune programming for windows with DevStudio - it used to be the best
visual toolchain in existence, but I gave up on it around .net time, when it
turned everything into almost visual basic (ugh).

This drag-drop "a monkey can do it" means monkeys do indeed do it, and
make the worst, unstable, inefficient software there is out there. Because you
still have no substitute for brains and understanding out there.

I own an expensive mass spectrometer that uses a windows CE computer inside and
DCOM to .net junk on the real machine (which does ALL The actual work!) because
evidently the programmers were too dumb to work out their own, much more
efficient protocol, or even make the winCE board actually do more than run
windows and DCOM....it's a joke (and unstable as dcom, which is pretty nasty).
A rather expensive ($25k) one. Go .net! Programming for the terminally idiotic
done here!

I now do some small developments for my physics stuff and sell some small
cross-platform products. I use perl, GTK, glade (GCC if I need to write a C
perl add on module that goes real fast) - it's a little more work to get a
polished looking GUI, but not so much as to tempt me to go back and deal with
DevStudio in its current form - or its current price. Gedit has syntax
highlighting and the ability to run build scripts - what more do I need?

There are some non trivial deployment issues on windows, of course - you have to
install perl and some other junk...but most of my customers are linux people
anyway...a nice change!

As far as I can tell, perl is actually faster on windows than .net...and it's
sure less likely to crash. Something about that one cook (Larry Wall) having
known a thing or two about languages in general, and having designed the
interpreter into the language and vice versa, instead of that ambitious one size
fits all junk in .net.

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