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Developer's Corner / Re: What's your Programming Language?

« on: November 17, 2009, 10:02 AM »

Because pointers were found to be confusing and usually leads to computer crash if misused...

-jeremejazz (November 17, 2009, 09:49 AM)

Have you ever worked with them? Maybe they are confusing, but very useful at times.

It seems that you are talking about destructors...

-jeremejazz (November 17, 2009, 09:52 AM)

Not necessarily, delete works anywhere...

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Developer's Corner / Re: What's your Programming Language?

« on: November 15, 2009, 08:43 AM »

Well, I'm not that professional ...

Two of the various projects I'm regularly working on:
1) Gamers.IRC, written in a scripting language
2) eMule beba, written in a programming language

 

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Developer's Corner / Wanted: Comparison of code beautifiers

« on: November 15, 2009, 08:37 AM »

I am currently digging through stuff like astyle, but I don't really have the time and knowledge to see which of the several code beautifiers does the most interesting stuff. Is there some kind of a comparison?

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Developer's Corner / Re: What's your Programming Language?

« on: November 15, 2009, 08:23 AM »

There is no way to explicitly declare pointers. In Java, everything is sort of a reference. (AFAIK.)

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Developer's Corner / Re: What's your Programming Language?

« on: November 15, 2009, 06:47 AM »

Where does Java provide more functionality? It doesn't even support pointers.

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Best Text Editor / Re: Is this serious?

« on: November 14, 2009, 06:47 PM »

As I just read that editor review again, I'd like to add my 2 cents:

Other editors had "macro recording" as a pro. The Vim entry says "custom vim script". Now this is not about "too hard to figure out". It uses vimscript indeed, but it can also handle macros of any complexity. Type q (without a colon), add a register for that macro (like "a"), enter a bunch of Vim commands, press q again and you can play the macro any time by @a and @@. So what?

(Just to clarify that.)

Ah, and Vim's GUI might not be that impressive. But what do you need a toolbar or even a menubar for at all?
Most people here use Ctrl+S to save something, I guess. They won't use a toolbar for it. So why do they care if Vim's toolbar and menu are ugly and too short and whatever?

 

(Mine doesn't have both of them anyway.)

Its help system was another "con". Hell, what do you expect? Screenshots?
You can even use :helpgrep. Not many other editors allow this.

Having been convinced by a lot of positive reviews (also on DC ), GVim is my default editor on Windows right now (to be honest, it has been for a couple of months now). Notepad++ (its "predecessor") is my "alternative" for some special purposes, but it is not registered with anything anymore. Vim could do everything in a better and/or more flexible way.

jm2c, as stated above.
And sorry for the bump.

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Developer's Corner / Re: What's your Programming Language?

« on: November 14, 2009, 04:31 PM »

I wonder if there actually is an example.

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Developer's Corner / Re: What's your Programming Language?

« on: November 14, 2009, 03:58 PM »

Hmm, since Java *may* use less memory than C++

-jgpaiva (November 14, 2009, 03:54 PM)

... if you don't count the VM ...

, and *may* run faster than C++

-jgpaiva (November 14, 2009, 03:54 PM)

... once the VM has started ...

See?

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Developer's Corner / Re: What's your Programming Language?

« on: November 14, 2009, 12:54 PM »

it just means that it may use more memory

-jgpaiva (November 14, 2009, 12:51 PM)

That's what I call inefficient.

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Developer's Corner / Re: What's your Programming Language?

« on: November 14, 2009, 11:51 AM »

Java might have a garbage collector, but its major disadvantage is that you just can't collect garbage yourself, so it tends to memory hogs of a quite notable amount.

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Developer's Corner / Re: What's your Programming Language?

« on: November 14, 2009, 06:42 AM »

My favorite programming language is Java.

-jeremejazz (November 13, 2009, 09:48 PM)

Oh God why? 

It's a bit like C/C++ in many ways.

-jeremejazz (November 13, 2009, 09:48 PM)

... except that you can write efficient and fast code in C++.

I'm curious about delphi... is it also an open source language?

-jeremejazz (November 13, 2009, 09:48 PM)

Not actually. http://en.wikipedia....i/Embarcadero_Delphi

what's the difference with a scripting language and a programming language?

-jeremejazz (November 13, 2009, 09:48 PM)

Scripting languages are usually made for a certain purpose.

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General Software Discussion / Re: At last: MP3 Lossless!!!

« on: November 13, 2009, 07:45 PM »

Each and every manufactory is working at heir hardest to get lower quality, not higher.

-Curt (November 13, 2009, 07:38 PM)

... which is multiplied with a constant factor every time something gets "remastered", see the latest Beatles remasters with the cut-off peaks...

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General Software Discussion / Re: At last: MP3 Lossless!!!

« on: November 12, 2009, 10:05 AM »

FLAC is an open, license-free format, MP3 is not. Unless they'll change that, they'll fail.

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General Software Discussion / Re: 10 things to do after installing Linux

« on: November 10, 2009, 12:22 PM »

These wizards have the impressive disadvantage that they don't allow an actual modification of the chosen settings. Ease is not a pro here.

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General Software Discussion / Re: At last: MP3 Lossless!!!

« on: November 10, 2009, 09:47 AM »

OMG, MP3 lossless. There is WavPack, there is FLAC   and there is Monkey's Audio. MP3 is for instant, mobile playing, not for archiving. (And the MP3 codec is still not license-free.)

I wonder when there will be "Ogg Vorbis HD" ...

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General Software Discussion / Re: 10 things to do after installing Linux

« on: November 09, 2009, 12:59 PM »

Innuendo is right, Dormouse. At least for Windows.

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General Software Discussion / Re: 10 things to do after installing Linux

« on: November 07, 2009, 06:40 AM »

Primarily it depends on your distribution.

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Living Room / Re: Jessica Williams track wanted ...

« on: November 06, 2009, 06:56 PM »

Seems like the industry is forcing us to use eMule for that (which basically has it).

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« on: November 06, 2009, 02:08 PM »

I've found I really like Mogwai's music. Or at least what I've heard of it so far.

-Deozaan (February 19, 2009, 03:35 PM)

Yep, postrock is an acquired kind of music ...

Fine, too: The Stolen Babies.

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General Software Discussion / Re: NexusFile has been updated!

« on: November 03, 2009, 04:01 PM »

A pity that development seems to have stalled, it looks quite promising... however, there are several things still missing (like a one-panel view  )...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anybody Here Use SeaMonkey (2.0)?

« on: November 02, 2009, 10:19 AM »

Seamonkey does feel a bit archaic but, hey! who doesn't like the retro look sometimes?!

-dantheman (November 02, 2009, 10:15 AM)

A browser is something I see all the time. I don't want to have a retro look on my still quite modern notebook. 
(I don't actually need any look while browsing, but I added a dozen of buttons which are useful in some cases...)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anybody Here Use SeaMonkey (2.0)?

« on: November 02, 2009, 09:48 AM »

Firefox 3.6 beta 1 seems to take less resources (subjectively).. however, Seamonkey was never my choice. I don't like its "look and feel".

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Living Room / Re: Google vs. the rest: Is it fair?

« on: November 02, 2009, 07:34 AM »

including the content of your emails

-zridling (November 02, 2009, 06:59 AM)

So emails are "just such a virtual thing" and in no way comparable to actual letters to you?

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Living Room / Re: Best Free and Pay FTP Client

« on: November 02, 2009, 07:32 AM »

FileZilla ftw. Now it even supports tabs. 

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Living Room / Re: Google vs. the rest: Is it fair?

« on: November 02, 2009, 01:16 AM »

Google is the one who delivers the best results in search

-Shades (November 01, 2009, 08:27 PM)

Google is the one who delivers the most Google-products results and who cares a lot about fake meta tags.