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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Really, do you expect folks to dust off their algorithms and data structures from 30 years ago, instead of what they have been doing the last decade on the job? Love to know how many do build bridges, repair cars,..., on their spare time fo
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
I am on my 50's now, if I have to prove that I am worthwhile being an employee with such teasers instead of what I have done thus far, I rather spend my time elsewhere, unless I am desperate for getting the position.
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
I did not count AIX / Solaris in, because they are always some racks in a server room, or the whole IBM / Unisys / Fujitsu for that matter. I was only thinking about UNIX workstations, those under/besides the desk. Othe
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
As user I still find it less painful to use than either AWS or GCP, where I had worse experiences in platform complexity (AWS), or talking to bots for support (GCP).
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Another AIX different that caughts folks off guard, it uses COFF primarly, and its dynamic library models is closer to Windows, OS/2, Symbian, than classical UNIX with ELF. Including the existence of import libraries, linker export fil
906.
by pjmlp 3mo ago
They are not the only ones, Google is famous for this kind of stuff, and then you look into Android code quality.
907.
by pjmlp 3mo ago
How many devs above 40 do you think still do leetcode to keep themselves entertained, especially if their daily work is doing CRUD stuff between corporate meetings?
908.
by pjmlp 3mo ago
Here a few additional teasers, - How many golf balls fit into the plane - How many gas stations exist in country (or alternative version with city ) - How many turns do you have to go on a gum machine until colour comes out? Naturally
909.
by pjmlp 3mo ago
We have a similar system in Portugal for Ausbildung (Técnico Professional), I wished more folks would pay attention to it, as it also suffers from the same problem that everyone just wants to go to the university instead. Trains are great a
910.
by pjmlp 3mo ago
As southern European that has lived a couple of years in Switzerland and eventually moved into Germany, I always mention that from flexibility and rules point of view, being in Germany versus Switzerland, feels so much better in Germany. So
911.
by pjmlp 3mo ago
Agreed, specially those that talk about Linux distros when they actually mean UNIX/POSIX.
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
One example of what they do there is GraalVM, which started as MaximeVM at Sun Labs, although they don't share code per se only the research. Or how Solaris eventually became the first UNIX with hardware memory tagging.
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Semantics matter to compiler vendors though, which is why C++ 26 now introduced erroneous behaviour as an attempt to fix UB.
914.
by pjmlp 3mo ago
As someone that jumped into Java already in 1996, even though it was still interpreted, JIT would only come into early 2000's, there was another big factor, the standard library. Contrary to what people think nowadays, trying to write
915.
by pjmlp 3mo ago
My computer skills typographic school exam was done with edlin, on MS-DOS 3.3 Never used it ever again.
916.
by pjmlp 3mo ago
For a while Microsoft was betting their future with Xenix, what an alternative reality that could have been.
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Given the option, I would go with DB 2 on z/OS instead of COBOL, for example.
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
If the systems are to stay on mainframe/micro land, all IBM, Fujitsu, Unisys platforms support Java. This is one set of ecosystems, where .NET going cross platform still misses out to Java, and neither of those companies cares about su
919.
by pjmlp 3mo ago
The irony is that talking to AI could not be any closer than COBOL's original goal.
920.
by pjmlp 3mo ago
Modern Cobol has most of the goodies, it is much more feature rich than Go.
921.
by pjmlp 3mo ago
It has had for plenty of years now, however many think vi and emacs is enough.
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Not all objects are references, because Delphi still supports the Turbo Pascal object model for compatibility, regardless of how many years they are deprecated now. Agree with the rest, I always loved how Borland picked Object Pascal extens
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Editions are limited, there is this urban myth they can do anything regarding language evolution, but that isn't the case. First of all they don't apply to the standard library currently, secondly the kind of automatic changes tha
924.
by pjmlp 3mo ago
Most Pascal criticisms are already addressed in Modula-2 (1978), that is one of the reasons Niklaus Wirth created it. Pascal was designed for learning, whereas Modula-2 was designed to be an industrial language with support for systems prog
925.
by pjmlp 3mo ago
Yeah, in an alternative timeline AMD would not had the opportunity to come up with AMD64, and we had to suck up Itanium no matter what, and maybe they would be improved.
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Between 2000 and 2003, I used Windows Server as desktop at work, after a short period of dual booting between Windows 2000 and Red-Hat Linux, which I stop doing when routinely rebooting into Windows for support started being a frequent habi
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
> The vertically integrated RISC/UNIX minicomputer companies were not on economically viable trajectories. Well, actually one survived, and is making a fruity company quite happy, which also survived the 16 and 8 bit vertically int
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Tomato tomato, employees do have to meet performance goals of some sort.
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
I recommend reading on Steve Jobs biographies of what was done at NeXT, regarding whatever industry your mean.
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
CocoaJava was when they were not certain devs educated in C++ and Object Pascal would ever accept Objective-C. Garbage collection is still there, regardless of the marketing message without fundamentals from CS theory of automatic memory ma

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