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Walt Fair, Jr. wrote: you mean that half of the team might be below average
Something must be done about that! 
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Another reason why you should all be nice to me
You really should have tagged Chris here. Maybe you can post it in bugs and suggestions. 
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TTFN - Kent
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Most interesting feature: Finally being able to use your Mac like a speakerphone. It's 'better together' within these garden walls
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Apple today announced a new programming language called Swift at WWDC today, which will replace Objective C as the language developers use for building iOS apps. Every one else had two languages, it was their turn
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Cool stuff. Definitely step in the right direction (away from Objective-C). Just why in the world would anyone develop yet another language? What's wrong with Java, Javascript, C#, VB, Python, TypeScript, CoffeeScript or gazillion of other languages other that it's not something they did? The next step would be to copyright it and then sue anyone who would even think about porting it to another platform.
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gstolarov wrote: The next step would be to copyright it and then sue anyone who would even think about porting it to another platform.
Answered your own question there
TTFN - Kent
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gstolarov wrote: Just why in the world would anyone develop yet another language?
There's no end to the number of new languages being created!
Kevin
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It's not a technical decision; merely marketing.
One that worked wonders for IBM when they were up against MS
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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gstolarov wrote: What's wrong with Java, Javascript, C#, VB, Python, TypeScript, CoffeeScript
Did you write that with a straight face? 
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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The programming language Objective-C was originally developed in the early 1980s. (wikipedia)
Interesting. It's had a long life.
But we wondered what we could do without the baggage of C.” Amusing, after that post on how great C is.
Marc
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Interesting: looks like an ML variant with C-like syntax: static type system with type inference, variables are const by default, options (I hope that means no nulls), closures.
Mandatory garbage collector, though  . I still like Rust[^] better.
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See this post[^] for some non-Apple-centric info, including a link to an ePub version of the document.
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Thanks. 
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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May was the seventh full month of availability for Microsoft’s latest operating system version: Windows 8.1 continues to grow slowly while Windows 8 remains largely flat, allowing the former to finally pass the latter in market share. At the same time, Windows 7 has managed to climb back over the 50 percent mark, while Windows XP still has more than 25 percent of the pie, despite support for the ancient OS finally ending in April. In related news: Vista still has almost twice as much market share as Linux
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Maybe this is the year of Vista ?
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It's looking like Microsoft's new 'mini' Start Menu for Windows 8.x won't be part of Windows 8.1 Update 2 as rumored. Instead, it's sounding like a 2015 deliverable now. Did they lose the code for the old one or something?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Did they lose the code for the old one or something?
No, of course not. They just don't know how to untangle Clippy from the Start Menu code.
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote: No, of course not. They just don't know how to untangle Clippy from the Start Menu code.
Looks like you were trying to press the start button.
Would you like me to:
_ Downgrade to Windows 7
_ Add a start menu to Windows 8
_ Go away.
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Pualee wrote: Downgrade Upgrade to Windows 7
FTFY
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There are over a billion Linux end-users in the world in 2014. Yes, that's right, a billion. Welcome to The Year of Linux (Nth Anniversary Edition)
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Which leads to the question: what do you like about it? The minimalism? No GUI?
TTFN - Kent
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