| 2013/4/29-5/18 [Computer/SW/Languages/C_Cplusplus, Computer/SW/Compilers] UID:54665 Activity:nil | 4/29 Why were C and Java designed to require "break;" statements for a
"case" section to terminate rather than falling-through to the next
section? 99% of the time poeple want a "case" section to terminate.
In fact some compilers issue warning if there is no "break;" statement
in a "case" section. Why not just design the languages to have
termination as the default behavior, and provide a "fallthru;"
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| 2012/8/29-11/7 [Computer/SW/Security] UID:54467 Activity:nil | 8/29 There was once a CSUA web page which runs an SSH client for logging
on to soda. Does that page still exist? Can someone remind me of the
URL please? Thx.
\_ what do you mean? instruction on how to ssh into soda?
\_ No I think he means the ssh applet, which, iirc, was an applet
that implemented an ssh v1 client. I think this page went away
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| 2011/4/16-7/13 [Computer/SW/Languages/Python] UID:54086 Activity:nil | 4/16 Whoa, I just heard that MIT discontinued 6.001 (classic scheme)
to 6.01. In fact, 6.00, 6.01 and 6.02 all use Python. What the
hell? What has the world become? It's a sad sad day. SICP forever!
\_ old story, they've ditched that shitty book and lang for a while.
\_ I used to think scheme was cool, then I saw Ka Ping Yee's
"Beautiful Code" class aka 61a in python, and converted.
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| 2011/2/24-4/20 [Computer/SW/Languages/Java] UID:54048 Activity:nil | 2/24 Go Programming Language. Anyone here use it? It kind of
reminds me of java-meets python, and well, that is fitting given it's
a GOOG product. What is so special about it?
\_ as I understand it, it's a suitable OOP-y systems language with more
structure than C, less complexity than C++, and less overhead than
Java/Python.
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| 2010/8/8-9/7 [Computer/SW/Languages/C_Cplusplus, Computer/SW/Languages/Web] UID:53914 Activity:nil | 8/8 Trying to make a list of interesting features languages have
touted as this whole PL field comes around, trying to see if they
have basis in the culture of the time: feel free to add some/dispute
1970 C, "portability"
1980 C++, classes, oop, iterators, streams, functors, templates
expert systems
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| 2009/12/5-26 [Computer/SW/Languages/Java] UID:53569 Activity:nil | 12/4 what do people have their JAVA_HOME's set to on soda?
\_ don't. are you trying to get sun java? It is installed, but not
the default. check dpkg -l and dpkg -L
\_ I'm trying to run maven to get scala/lift.net working
properly and it's complaining that JAVA_HOME is not set.
\_ you probably want one of the directories in /usr/lib/jvm,
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| 2009/8/7-14 [Computer/SW/Languages/C_Cplusplus, Computer/SW/Languages/Java] UID:53252 Activity:high | 8/6 In C one can do "typedef int my_index_t;". What's the equivalent in
C#? Thanks.
\_ C#? Are you serious? Is this what the class of 2009 learn?
\_ No. I have to learn .NET code at work. I am Class of '93.
\_ python is what 2009 learns, see the motd thread about recent
cal courses and languages
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| 2009/7/21-24 [Computer/SW/Languages/Java] UID:53168 Activity:moderate | 7/20 For those who care btw, it looks like eclipse is now A Standard Tool
at UCB ugrad cs, probably replaced emacs. Furthermore, people get
angry at seeing Makefiles, (since eclispe takes care of that). I
guess it's just a sign of the times.
\_ The more people at my work use eclipse the less the code is
managable in emacs. I'm not sure which application's fault
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| 2010/7/25-8/25 [Computer/SW/Graphics] UID:53897 Activity:nil | 7/25 What's up with that moving bit pattern that Win7 displays when it
boots up? (It's the one that's like in the Apple II days when you
use the graphics memory for code or data while it's still in HGR
mode.) Is there a way to disable that? It slows things down a lot
every time I reboot my Win7 VM on my office machine if I RDP to the
machine via DSL. Thanks in advance.
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| 2010/1/22-30 [Computer/HW/Laptop, Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:53655 Activity:high | 1/22 looking to buy a new development laptop
needs ssdrive, >6 hr possible batt life, and runs linux reasonably
Anyone have a recommendation? Thx.
\_ thinkpad t23 w ssdrive and battery inplace of drive bay
\_ Ever wondered what RICHARD STALLMAN uses for a laptop? Well,
wonder no more!
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| 2009/11/24-12/6 [Computer/HW] UID:53542 Activity:low | 11/24 What is the best 25-32" monitor out there? I am ready to upgrade
my 9 year old CRT. -ausman
\_ How much money are you willing to spend, and how good do you
really need it to be good? Are you willing to pay $900 for the
industry standard monitor used by graphics artists, or are you
so cheap that you'll only want to pay up $400 for something that
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| 2009/1/19-26 [Recreation/Computer/Games] UID:52418 Activity:nil | 1/19 Mirror's Edge review: meh
Great tech demo, not a very good game.
\_ Agreed. Graphics and visual style were really, really good, but the
plot was utter shit. The parkour was pretty fun, but in the end, all
it really was was Parkour: The Game. --t
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| 2008/12/8-10 [Computer/HW/Laptop] UID:52193 Activity:kinda low | 12/7 What kind of adapter do I need on my Thinkpad to drive that new 30"
Apple Cinema display?
\_ New? Well, though I didn't know there's a new model, I'm pretty sure
that like the old one, you'll need something with Dual-link DVI, or
if they moved to DisplayPort (or whatever its name was), you'll need
that. Basically, with such a large monitor, it needs a lot of
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