Because our streets aren't unsafe enough yet and because we don't have enough accidents, people are now being allowed on the road under EU pressure who a) lack adequate training (training? A theoretical exam and half an hour of driving practice can hardly be called that) and b) lack adequate equipment (ridiculous plastic boxes without any noteworthy safety features).
What's the point of this nonsense?
This Class S license is a completely stupid idea. Hopefully these shoeboxes on wheels will stay absurdly expensive enough that ideally only the dumbest people fall for it and buy them. Traffic will then do its part to provide the appropriate evolutionary pressure...
You can find the original article at WDR.de and here.
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Ouch. A couple of employees from the Microsoft Visual Basic Team apparently filed a patent on the IsNot operator - yes, something like a "not equal to", but for object references instead of values - what a bunch of nonsense. And cheekily, they also claim in their application that Borland Delphi is a Basic derivative — while ignoring the fact that Delphi is Pascal, which has a quite different history...
The whole thing has the feel of a joke, but unfortunately it appears to be true.
Here's the original article.
Python IAQ: Infrequently Answered Questions - Partly witty, partly serious answers to not entirely obvious questions about Python
A certain mocking grin on my face I cannot deny
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.
Well. At least some form of consistency - although it would have come across considerably more consistently if he had done it right away. Of course, that doesn't make all this fuss any more intelligent and doesn't improve this silly health mess of the Union ...
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD there's the original article.
More interesting is actually Slate. On the one hand, the implementation is freely available to play around with, and on the other hand, the language at least came into the world with a concept - Smalltalk with multimethod dispatch à la CLOS and a prototype-based object system à la Self. All of it, though, in classic Smalltalk syntax. That's at least a vision - let's do what Common Lisp has been able to do for a long time, but in Smalltalk.
But then I still ask myself why not just use Common Lisp, where you'd simply have to build the prototype-based object system as a package, but macros, multimethod dispatch and other fun stuff are already done? Programming language designers are masochists
Here's the original article.
Cool. A solar-powered battery charger for the iPod. But looking at the weather outside right now, I probably need a charger that runs on pedal power instead - there's no sun to work with here.
The original article is on Gizmodo - here.
And since we're on a roll beating up on stupid programming languages: MIT wasn't really any better either. They replaced the round brackets with curly ones. Great. Not much better than angle brackets, and the commercial exploitation of this grandiose idea was promptly taken over by a company.
But since this is MIT, of course they went two steps further and wanted to basically understand it as a new markup system. So to speak, as an alternative to HTML.
And because you can only make waves at MIT if you're truly crazy, the whole thing ended up being not just an object-oriented Scheme where you replaced the round brackets with curly brackets - no, they also threw in a box model from TeX for layouting.
Hurrah. We needed that. Not.
Here's the original article.
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Yet another programming language that nobody really needs. In principle, it's based on a Lisp that works with XML syntax instead of S-expressions (those wild bracket expressions that Lispers love so much and everyone else hates). Angle brackets instead of parentheses - what a tremendous improvement.
And to top it all off, it's also a proprietary project. And written in Java. Wow, Java must be really sick if it's coming up with such sick solutions.
The same thing can be done better and more elegantly with various free Lisp projects - and you can stick with the round brackets too.
Here's the original article.
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