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If Microsoft really wants Internet Explorer to make a comeback, they should stop calling it Internet Explorer.
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Leaked screenshots of an upcoming update show an option to open Windows Store apps from the taskbar. Well, that should really make a difference
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The naked truth about the joys, frustrations, and hard work of writing your own programming language. Why not, everyone else seems to be doing it.
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Yay, Walter!
Now give us an elephanting Boolean type! 
Ah, I stand corrected... Yay, Walter! 'Bout frickin' time. Why didn't you do that ten years ago when we asked you to the first time? 
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and give us a tiny integer type to hold just half byte. 
Nikhil Singh
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Now that's just silly -- nybbles always come in pairs.
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There's no bool in D? Not even a VB-esque "just about everything is true"?
What do you use instead?
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TTFN - Kent
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Same as in C. 
OK, old information, sorry.
However, it's still not a true Boolean type, in that you can still cast to and from other types -- I don't think that's a good idea.
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Er.. not true:
D Data Types[^]
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Yay, he finally saw the light.
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I presume you're referring to the D Programming Language[^]? (i.e. the one authored by Walter), with its bool type?
Or are you off on some tangent of your own 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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Oh, did he finally add it? I stopped being interested in D when he said he wouldn't, back about ten years ago.
The last version I tried was:
Digital Mars D Compiler v0.102
Copyright (c) 1999-2004 by Digital Mars written by Walter Bright
Documentation: www.digitalmars.com/d/index.html
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That's a way back, it's now around V2. The bool type has been around for quite a while - I first looked at D before V2, but after V1 (can't quite figure out when now).
An odd language though - I applaud the effort, but it doesn't seem to hit the right sweet spot to lure me away from managed code (for higher level tasks), or C++ (mid-level tasks) or (just occasionally) Assembler (when there's little choice).
I prefer C++'s philosophy wrt lifetime (RAII) over GC in low-level tasks. In many other respects though D offers a better experience than C++, many ideas from there are slowly migrating back to C++, but C++ is a bit too daunting nowadays - I suspect there's a handful of people in the world now who are really C++ experts, the rest of us program using some useful subset. I dread to think what its like for a newcomer.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Yeah, I had already learned C# before I heard about D, so there was never much chance I'd switch.
Rob Grainger wrote: I applaud the effort
Absolutely.
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Ten years ago today, Michel Schinz announced the first implementation of the Scala programming language. When announced, it was describe as "a language that smoothly integrates object-oriented and functional programming" and which "is designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant and type-safe way." Traditional gift is tin, so go write a container
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His name is Chris Wanstrath, and he co-founded GitHub with outgoing CEO and incoming President Tom Preston-Werner.
The king is dead. Long live the king.
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TrustedSec CEO David Kennedy recounted the hack to the congressional committee last week.
"It's fixed this time, we swear!" -said every Healthcare.gov developer for the past 4 months.
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Does this mean that 70K people actually get health care from govt.?
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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Someone imported the data from the Social Security death index 
On the plus side, they got really low premiums 
Steve
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I C(++) therefore I am
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No, it means 70K people were stupid enough to sign up for private insurance through the gov't.
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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Windows 9 rumors spell quick burial of Windows 8. Is this is a flop of Vista proportions? "Apple really has no presence in business, and we think Vista's going to have a huge presence in business. We think we're going to help the corporate IT stack save money."
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Nothing could ever be quite as big a flop as the Longhorn-turned-Vista Hindenburg of desktop OS flops, but the fact that they seem to be rushing it out this quickly certainly doesn't look good.
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Quote: Nothing could ever be quite as big a flop as the Longhorn-turned-Vista Hindenburg of desktop OS flops
Too young to remember Windows ME?
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Christopher Shields wrote: but the fact that they seem to be rushing it out this quickly certainly doesn't look good.
They're moving to this rapid release paradigm anyway - everyone copying Google it seems.
Kevin
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Absolutely not!
I don't get all the complaints and anxious hand-wringing, windows 8 is more stable and faster than windows 7.
Who the Fuck cares if there's no start button? Learn, people, learn! Open the brain!
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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