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12y ago
So would a ridiculously slow PHP framework be an example of why we don't code serious web apps with PHP?
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12y ago
It depends. It's not like there's no safe way of using strcpy and sprintf.
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12y ago
It's not (strictly) C, though.
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12y ago
C99 compiler won't do, it also requires a GCC extension (statement expressions).
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12y ago
Too serious, too serious. I like the best the version in which each participant starts with a can of beverage in one hand and has to finish it before pulling with both hands.
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12y ago
I disagree. Even in 2014 we have a place for different kinds of new languages. If we didn't, the likes of C++ would live forever with all their shortcomings.
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12y ago
I wonder if there's a (simple syntactical) way to unlink the constness of unique pointers and their targets. It's not a huge obstruction, but seems like an unnecessary restriction not found in the near-equivalent C++ construction.
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12y ago
Open sourcing is never the end of a good product.
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12y ago
Perhaps we will. I strongly doubt any of those will be even a slight success, unless released by the Atom team (which the copyleft license wouldn't affect).
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13y ago
They don't have VAT in the US, and their sales tax is a bit different. I'm not sure if it applies to digital purchases. However, the price difference is often larger than what taxes alone would suggest, but surely localization p
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13y ago
The only reason for midnight being a falsy value that I can think of is that someone thought that all objects should provide some functionality for __nonzero__/__bool__. It was a bad idea.
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13y ago
Well, I use spaces for marking whitespace in many cases. Just not for indenting, that's what tabs are for :).
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13y ago
Just use a capable editor. It's 2014, for heaven's sake!
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13y ago
It's not like it runs Linux now, is it? ;)
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13y ago
The OS in the most basic of Nokia phones is commonly referred to as S30. It doesn't really need much active maintenance, though, because they mostly only change graphics and included games (and utilities) between those phones.