barryfandango

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   by barryfandango 18y ago

   You reveal the primary flaw in your thinking with the phrase "C folk." Languages are not enemy camps. Just learn them both and use the appropriate tool in the appropriate situation - python for glue, prototyping, business systems, web pro
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   by barryfandango 18y ago

   Why would you bring manliness into the discussion? Are you suggesting that Perl and Python are somehow manlier? Because I have no idea what that means.
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   by barryfandango 18y ago

   Funny how these 2.0 young bucks consider a C-rewrite extreme, when for many coders is is the lingua franca, the bread and butter. I got started on high-level languages but I've made an effort to get familiar with C because it's small, beau
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   by barryfandango 18y ago

   If they used flash, this story would seem ridiculous: -- Adobe will offer U.S. Web surfers this month thousands of hours of free video direct from the Olympics in Beijing. The service, produced in conjunction with NBC, is being hailed as a
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   by barryfandango 18y ago

   Fans of entertainment? So they're entertained by things they find entertaining. Great headline!
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   by barryfandango 19y ago

   I know that counterexamples will not disprove the trend, but... What about the Curies? Or Thelonious Monk. Without Nellie to make his lunch and get him dressed in the morning, he would never have achieved the things he did.