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Kent Sharkey Bjarne Stroustrup wrote:
"Within C++, there is a much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get out."
It's not doing a very good job of it at the moment though, they keep adding features, rarely deprecate things, and fail to deliver the two features that may help manage the complexity (concepts and modules).
Concepts, alone, have been under the standardisation process for around 20 years. For a feature that may finally make error messages grokkable, that's a hell of a long time. Modules have been desirable as long as C++ has existed.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I've no problem with punting concepts, modules and co-routines down the road since all three are half-baked right now. However, I would have liked to have seen a genuine effort to get networking into c++17. Beefing up synchronization would have also helped (adding semaphores and events.)
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If your site isn’t easy to use on mobile, Google penalizes it by ranking it lower on its mobile search results pages. It's completely a coincidence that they're trying to push AMP
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I'll tell you why rumors of Perl's death have been greatly exaggerated. It just deserves to be
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No, its undead. For god sake someone call Buffy the awful Programming Language Slayer, there's much work her around here.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It just deserves to be
Indeed. Worst language I've ever used (though I admit it's good at what it does).
Kevin
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Kevin McFarlane wrote: Worst language I've ever used
Obviously, you never saw DEC Teco macros! 
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
- G.K. Chesterton
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s/Perl/COBOL/
s/early web sites/mainframes/
s/1990s/1960s/
Can you tell I tampered with the original article? 
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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The program is “a performance-based referral program that lets you earn commissions by referring customers to paid and freemium digital content in Windows Store and paid content in the Microsoft Store.” Pretty soon you're talking real money!
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Makes cents! All those new Xamarin users can now develop Windows Apps easy peasy.
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Yeah baby. Groovy.
Sorry, I came over all Austin Powers for a moment. Like it.
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Peter!!
In case you were still wondering how to download the CryEngine! (Like I am)...
Get it on Steam!!
CRYENGINE on Steam[^]
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Success. Finally managed to download it from the CryEngine site.
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Ooooh... I just checking my email... and amidst the 500 spam... (my mailbox is cursed.. :'( )
I.. did received email from Crytek! 
Gotta do it now too! 
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Took me a little while to get used to the interface but I finally created my first terrain with walkthrough on Friday. All the instructions online tend to point to older versions which just don't have quite the same interface. Saying that, it hasn't been too bad - I added clouds easily enough; just need to add grass and I'll be happy with it as a first pass.
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Good on you! 
Still can't download.. :'( But just send a message to "contact @ crytek" will see how it goes...
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Have you managed to log in to Crytek? Once I got past the registration phase, it was pretty straightforward (eventually figured out that they couldn't cope with the apostrophe in my surname).
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Yeah! Customer service helped me!
Downloading now.. and going to bed too...
Will check tomorrow!
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So, what do you think? It's pretty cool isn't it?
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So, the way it works is you have a launcher which seems to be the place you create your projects. Created my first project as a C# project - which requires you to download the 3.3GB C# engine (no engines are installed by default). Quick hop off to the market place and time to download the CryEngine Game SDK Sample. Seems straightforward enough.
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This blog is the first in a multi-part series on app design for developers. We’ll introduce you to the tricks of the design trade so you can create more attractive and more successful UWP apps. "Red on black, you're OK, Jack"
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basic mastery
Isn't that something of an oxymoron?
But let's continue:
Knowing these building blocks contributes to what designers rather loosely define as “good taste” — the ability to quickly judge what works visually and what does not.
No. Knowing how to use paint, a paintbrush, and a canvas does not mean that what you produce is in good taste. Some examples if you don't believe me.[^]
you should always start by figuring out what your app does.
Ummm. No comment.
Always be on the lookout for inspiration.
I could always tell when an app was written in VB because the programmer's inspiration was so elephanting obvious.
Now try to find a few test users (at least five or so is usually best) to give feedback on your paper prototype.
My girlfriend, her friend, my poker buddies. Everyone's an expert, everyone has an opinion. They're neither, and they're usually wrong.
Plan your Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app.
Uh, no, if I'm going to plan for a "universal" app, I want it to run on something more than just every device that runs Windows 10[^] Wait, there are more devices out there that run on other things other than W10, right? Right??? Maybe my opinionated expertise needs to be revisited.
Marc
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Isn't "successful UWP app" an oxymoron too?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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