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2004-05-08 06:07:11 AM
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At 23:47:31, 07.05.2004, David Erbas-White wrote:
that since a few years already. They are extremely reliable, and this has
already made Formula 1 a little unspectacular. <g>
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Rudy Velthuis (TeamB) wrote:
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Ken
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My opinion is why do we need .NET. I can perform the same computer
instruction with any computer language. Why should I rewrite my software
all over again. Is Microsoft or someone else going to write another
language where I have to do this all over again? At what point does this
process stop? .NET only runs on Windows. VB, C, C++, PASCAL, PC assembler,
Fortran and others run on Windows. Why do I have to use .NET? Is .NET the
greatest thing just for new programmers because of the frame work? I don't
know. All my customers care about is does it work... OK Keep up the good
work.
 

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Bob wrote:
www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/story/0,10801,92971
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or
shorterlink.com/?2FWDLK
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Ken
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C++ is arguably the best language today. Is it the perfect language?
No! Delphi, Java, C# all have certain features that makes them better in
certain areas. C# indeed is a good step in the direction of searching
for a better alternative tomorrow. I have seen enough people asking why
we are moving toward C++ when C does just fine, and why we use C
compilers when we can do whatever we want in Assembler. Is C# ready to
replace C++? I don't think so. Will it replace it ever? I don't think so
either, but it most likely will become {*word*109} in certain types of
development, the way Java did. C++ is great for a lot of thins, but it
does poorly in enterprise distributed systems. We live in a very exiting
and dynamic time, when a new wave of technology gets born. Let's enjoy it!
Bob wrote:

Boian Mitov < XXXX@XXXXX.COM >wrote in message news:<409be622$ XXXX@XXXXX.COM >...
have to start selling its foundation or standard products again as
regular products, drop the "personal use only license" and bring the
new generation of Shareware people back into the fold who don't need
fancy database and "Enterprise" software for most of the apps they
develop. I think C++ and CBuilderX would probably be a good vehicle
for this since it uses WxWidgets which is under the LGPL and WxWidgets
license which allow proprietary cross platform software development
without paying TrollTech an arm and a leg. Unlike most of the people
here who insist on keeping the two language system (pascal VCL in a
C++ development environment) I would like to see the GUI builder
returned to CBuilderX but with WxWidgets and true C++ being the
underlying library.
 

On Fri, 7 May 2004 13:43:43 -0400, Stephan wrote:
person" who was an ex-IBM employee (retired from there actually). He was
able to point out how everything in IT seems to go round in cycles.
Technology improves but the same ideas seem to go round and round in and
out of favour.
It was particularly sad the way that the PC was making the same mistakes
and developing the same solutions that mainframes had a couple of decades
earlier.
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If there was only a decent IDE out there for it. *ahem*
 

convinced C++ will be a 1st class .net language for a long time.
 

XXXX@XXXXX.COM (Mike Margerum) writes:
start a flame war over it. :)
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Chris (TeamB);
 

The slowdown is already happening, and its dubious we'll see in
the next decade the kind of performance improvements we saw
in the last.
Another hint is that power consumption will soon be back to 70s levels
(already is in some areas), which will bring a whole slew of issues
(just check the new Intel BTX specs and their huge CPU heatsinks requirements)
Z
 

zedd wrote:
particular die size, than about clock speed. Intel only did the clock
speed thing for marketing.
Micha
 

On Wed, 12 May 2004 20:24:51 -0400, Chris Uzdavinis TeamB wrote:
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Andrue Cope
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It isn't, or we would be transitionning away from 60 nm
right now, not seeing the transition to 90nm.
Z
 

delphi, and python. Depends on the project. Ruby doesn't seem to be
significantly different than python and seems to lack a lot of library
support. What would you say are the compelling features of Ruby that
aren't in python?
Mike