leal

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   by leal 13y ago

   Technology does help people immensely, perhaps in ways less measurable than philanthropy. Consider medical devices, weather forecasting, medical research - all these significantly leverage GNU/Linux.
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   by leal 13y ago

   There are applications today where C++ is still the best choice. For high complexity, performance critical applications (as csmuk mentions - game engines, trading, network software, but also high performance compilers and VMs) no other lang
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   by leal 14y ago

   It's amazing how many things are discovered this way.
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   by leal 14y ago

   It's the other way around, language designers go out of their way to conform to C-like syntax in order to cater to programmers of C-like languages. C's syntax is a fairly low level, which makes it fairly easy to map to assembly, but not ver
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   by leal 14y ago

   (note: did not read the CNN article) I think that all the complaining about the lack of difficulty is completely missing Thrun's and Norvig's objectives. The most important thing educators provide is inspiration, not information or putting