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Artificial Intelligence: Working backwards from HAL
Talkback This suggests that text based programming languages do not satisfactorily provide a platform for “reasoning”. In my opinion, the future of AI is dependent on the extension of the programming paradigm from today’s Boolean logic to incorporate...
About: Artificial Intelligence: Working backwards from HAL
[April 3, 2006, 16:54]
RE: Copyright in a new light
Blog Comment Most successful programming languages attempt to limit the amount of built-in commands and functions in the language to allow the compilers to be manageable and able to work deterministically and reliably.
[December 23, 2009, 10:48 by Xwindowsjunkie]
RE: Does 10x faster development dumb down programming?
Blog Comment From the single-purpose MS Access, to Delphi, and more exotic options like Squeak Smalltalk, there are many helpful programming platforms that automate much of the setup and/or work. The people who should look at this are those for whom the mundane...
[November 27, 2009, 10:01 by bobdowne]
Microsoft patents 'to-do' list
Talkback It would be interesting to see if this patent stands, since Borland introduced this very feature into it's programming languages IDEs long before M$ "thought" of the idea.
About: Microsoft patents 'to-do' list
[October 5, 2004, 23:43]
Microsoft slammed over XML patent
Talkback Would this mean that C++ or other programming languages are being patent? Of course not! Microsoft SHOULD NOT BE AWARDED WITH THE PATENT!
About: Microsoft slammed over XML patent
[June 3, 2005, 0:20]
Perl in the shell
Blog Why doesn’t anyone talk about computer programming languages these days? But what about the languages that bind all these developments to drive the mechanics of what surfaces on the technology horizon every day?
[September 10, 2008, 12:12 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
RE: Does 10x faster development dumb down programming?
Blog Comment We have come a long way in the past 40 years in terms of computer programming languages. I ran the gauntlet of most of them in my 45 years of programming. All I can say is "Give me the name of a programming language which is so natural, so easy to...
[November 26, 2009, 11:26 by combleurdelacunes]
RE: Does 10x faster development dumb down programming?
Blog Comment I have been programming professionally for almost 20 years and have seen many languages and products come and go with equally bold claims. I think you are right to question the statement of "90-per cent less code than traditional languages" with...
[November 27, 2009, 4:22 by smpcs]
Does 10x faster development dumb down programming?
Blog If you’re in the business of reviewing software application development news, which coincidentally I am, then tenfold programming productivity claims tend to either raise my eyebrows or raise my hackles in equal measure.
[November 25, 2009, 13:09 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
RE: Does 10x faster development dumb down programming?
Blog Comment It's programming power "for the rest of us"! I've done dozens of those kind of small "one off" applications for my own use that I wouldn't even attempt with other languages or platforms. Hey Adrian, Although I've been doing lightweight development...
[November 26, 2009, 9:54 by DCoker]
Microsoft research does the PDC keynote
Blog Phew anyway off to catch up with panel on the future of programming languages. Dryad and DryadLINQ are two new technologies for cluster computing which allows management of programming across multiple clusters with a sensible query language.
[October 29, 2008, 17:12 in News Blog by PeterI]
Microsoft's antitrust concessions are 'pointless'
Talkback One calling _that_ "userfriendly" or "easy to use" I call manipulated, naive and utterly incompetent, incapable to judge IT-stuff and even less equipped to judge the ones (so called geeks, Hackers & nerds) really grokking IT and being innovative...
About: Microsoft's antitrust concessions are 'pointless'
[August 1, 2005, 6:57]
A Peek into the JavaOne 2009 Classrooms
Blog As it turns out, Clojure can very beneficial to concurrent programming in which deadlocks must be avoided. With only a few seconds to spare, I meandered along and found myself in a session entitled "Script Bowl 2009: A Scripting Languages Shootout...
[June 4, 2009, 14:03 in Thoughts on the code from the frontal lobe by Terry-Lynn]
JavaOne: notes from the classroom
Blog Moving forward with my learning objectives, I thought it was beneficial for me to push ahead and attend the upcoming Java Programming Language Changes session. TS-5581 Upcoming Java Programming Language Changes
[May 9, 2008, 10:49 in Thoughts on the code from the frontal lobe by Terry-Lynn]
RE: Perl in the shell
Blog Comment Honestly, I haven't seen a really good article about programming or programming languages in a long, long time. I have been stewing over this for a while, and not only is there not enough about "real programming", what little there is seems to...
[September 10, 2008, 13:41 by J.A. Watson]
COBOL keeps on rolling along
Blog IT manager: “No really - despite an increasing array of programming languages, COBOL remains the most widely used enterprise class language in the world today. Comparatively rare are the times when we hear about COBOL programming these days...
[July 9, 2008, 16:21 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Microsoft throws governments a standardisation bone
Talkback Microsoft has submitted other software to ECMA for standardisation, including programming languages ECMAScript appears to be incorrect - Microsoft worked with and likely submitted their JScript extensions to the standrd.
About: Microsoft throws governments a standardisation bone
[November 25, 2005, 2:37]
Supercomputers produce numerical results of unknown accuracy
Talkback Mathematics, algorithms and programming languages were developed at the Institute of Applied Mathematics of Karlsruhe University by the group of Prof. Since many years it is known that computers produce numerical results of questionable accuracy.
About: Are supercomputers just better liars?
[March 26, 2009, 10:36 by kirchner-r]
Possible prior art for Microsoft XML patent found
Talkback WDDX is a technology for exchanging complex data structures between programming languages. Yet another prior art from 1998: http://www.xml.com/pub/r/502 WDDX (Web Distributed Data eXchange) Date: Sep.
About: Possible prior art for Microsoft XML patent found
[June 3, 2005, 17:08]
Obituary: Anthony Rumble - Linux pioneer and enthusiast
Blog A true geek-at-heart who was more than capable of building his own PC from parts, running a complex network of servers or coding in a range of programming languages. Anthony Rumble, one of Australia's long-time supporters of Linux and free software...
[May 12, 2009, 9:27 in Khaotic Musings by conz]
