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In case anyone hadn't noticed, I have decided to host my own blog (yeah, getting with the times several years after the fact). You can find new posts at http://xblog.xman.org/.
Monday September 11, 2006 - 08:38am (PDT) Permanent Link | 2 Comments - Treasure Island Online
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AOL is going to dig for buried treasure. Spammers appear to be modern day pirates. Wow... today is bizarre enough I'm ready to consider that hell really is freezing over....
Tuesday August 15, 2006 - 07:03pm (PDT) Permanent Link | 0 Comments - Sun starts to let go of Java
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For a while now, I've been thinking that for Java to continue to grow and succeed, Sun was going to have to die. Now, Sun isn't dead yet, but it is definitely sickly, and Java has been making great strides of late. The Mustang stuff is great (try out the VM if you haven't, very zippy for desktop apps). The buzz in the Java community is very much about tackling areas outside of the enterprise. All very cool stuff.
But now the hammer drops: Sun has said they are going to open source the compiler and the *VM* by the end of the year.
In other news: scientists have observed an odd evolutionary path in pigs which should result in them sprouting wings by early next year. Someone by the name of Lucifer, anticipating a cold winter, has put in a massive order for heaters, causing a worldwide shortage. Richard Stallman has announced his 2007 new year's resolution will be to stop insisting that it be called "GNU/Linux". Osama Bin Laden announces that he is renouncing violence in all forms and converting to Buddism......
Tuesday August 15, 2006 - 10:47am (PDT) Permanent Link | 5 Comments - Best C++ Quote Ever
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Heard on IRC yesterday:
"C++ is notoriously complex. Whereas smaller computer languages have features designed into them, C++ is unusual in having a whole swathe of functionality discovered, like a tract of 19th century Africa."
Tuesday August 15, 2006 - 09:59am (PDT) Permanent Link | 2 Comments - The Power of None
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Andrei Alexandrescu should be locked up somewhere and not allowed out until he's finished completely reinventing C++. Just great stuff coming out from him all the time. I think the key is he looks at the fundamental mechanics of the language, and then looks at what he wants the language to do, and then finds a way to express that using the mechanics of the language, regardless of what the established convention is. Sometimes this results in some seriously complex code, perhaps too complex to be of general use, but sometimes it results in incredibly simple concepts that just work well. Such is the case here.
His latest concoction can be found in the slide show (which apparently is undergoing revision) titled: The Power of None. Read it and rethink how you do exceptions and error handling in your C++ code.
Tuesday August 8, 2006 - 01:29am (PDT) Permanent Link | 0 Comments
