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In a recent article, Alex Payne, organizer of the Emerging Languages Camp, provides insight on how the language landscape has changed in the last five years and how it might change in future. "Tools make the man"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Tools make the man"
Yes, but what a man makes with his tools, that's a different story.
Marc
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Very true, but it doesn't look as good on a bumper sticker.
TTFN - Kent
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And when the man is a tool is a third.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Ever try using a five-year-old PC to get anything done? That's because over time, the OS decays. "The ruins now worn away with age, yet still majestic in decay."
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I don't think that was the case with DOS. I expect that a 20-year-old PC with DOS would still work just as well as it did.
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Decay? Is that actually spelled, r-e-g-i-s-t-r-y, maybe? Aka single point of failure - enormous system database that is all gunked up.
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newton.saber wrote: Is that actually spelled, r-e-g-i-s-t-r-y, maybe? Aka single point of failure - enormous system database that is all gunked up.
Why, whatever do you mean??? It's simply a NoSQL document style key-value pair database, after all! 
Marc
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Will Windows address the operating system's 10 biggest weakness's?
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Quote: "The ruins now worn away with age, yet still majestic in decay."
Didn't Homer say that originally? ...and I don't mean Homer Simpson; doh!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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If they fix it, people will stop buying new versions.
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Remember that incredibly stupid thing you did a decade or two ago? You wouldn't want to live it down every day. Neither should the Internet. "All right, mistakes were made."
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t’s been just two months since researcher Karsten Nohl demonstrated an attack he called BadUSB to a standing-room-only crowd at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, showing that it’s possible to corrupt any USB device with insidious, undetectable malware. Pass the epoxy
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I hereby sentence you to be CP top procrastinator ...
and i thank you for that
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A beta of the next version of Microsoft's Visual Studio and other new tools for Windows developers are expected to get updates in November. "There's always something"
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Google’s Scott Jenson, an interaction and UX designer who left the company only to return to the Chrome team last November, has revealed a project underway at the company called The Physical Web to provide “interaction on demand” so that people can walk up and use any smart devices without the need for intervening mobile apps. We'll be surrounded by 'smart' things, and dumb people
So... yeah. Somethings never change.
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Its been almost two years since the release of Windows 8, yet Windows 7 is still dominating the Windows platform by having a commanding market share of 52.71%. How fast can they get Wen ready for shipping?
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Of course - after W10 news, no one will update to 8. To learn touch screen just to forget it after 6 months?!
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Of course - after W10 news, no one will update to 8. To learn touch screen just to forget it after 6 months?!
Touch won't get away, what's changing is that the UI will adapt to the kind of device and input method you use (touch, digitizer, mouse/keyboard).
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As a part of the Windows team, we’re super excited about the Windows 10 Technical Preview that was just released! The final version of Windows 10 will ship with DirectX 12, and we think it's going to be awesome. Didn't someone say that was dead recently?
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The one dead is DirectX 11 - it's like in Dr. Who...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Ah, that makes sense (in a timey-whimey way). Thank you!
TTFN - Kent
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In a recent thread on CodePlex Mads Torgeson, C# Language PM at Microsoft, announced 2 of the key features planned for C# 6 release have now been cut. After all the posts about what's in C# 6, here's what won't be in there
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Well, I won't miss them. While the null-conditional and nameof operators make sense, I never liked those purely syntactical sugar ones like primary constructors or auto-property initializers. They only blow up the language specification and I'm not sure if it really helps the language in the long term to have yet another way to express something, just for the sake of saving some typing afford in this case. The consistency of the code might suffer from it. They really have to be careful about not to end up in a mess of too many choices and possibilities moving forward.
What I'd like to see is compiler switches to turn specific features on and off.
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I'm not overly upset about the loss of primary constructors. Aside from pure data objects, splitting the initialization code up like that felt like just swapping one problem for a second.
The syntactic sugar for returning tuples is something I'd miss though.
This:
Tuple<string, int> Frobinate() { }
var temp = Frobinate();
myString = temp.Item1;
myInt = temp.Item2;
is arguably worse than int Frobinate(out string foo), except when you want to put your returns into properties in which case even using an out param requires the same nasty temp dance. Regardless both are fugly.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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