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Well, the language doesn't matter; only the features do.
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I disagree. A well designed language creates a synthesis of features that makes it a pleasure to use.
A poorly designed-by-committee language ends up looking like C++.
Which has many, many features, but isn't exactly the easiest language to learn.
"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 like C++. A lot. Even so, it was originally "designed" (ehm, hacked together) by one guy as a front-end to "C". It was a hack then and it's a hack by committee now.
But, I still like it.
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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Don't get me wrong, I like it and use it exclusively for certain kinds of projects, but more because nothing else is really usable in that space.
It just seems the language "evolves" to a more complex language all the time, never (or very very rarely) prunes old features or fixes features, and even someone like me, with over 20 years experience, can't hope to understand all features fully.
And the use of textual inclusion for module dependencies in the 21st century is really a joke. No wonder compile-times are excessive for large projects.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Remember Heartbleed? You know, the exploit in SSL that was so bad it got its own brand? Microsoft may have an issue of similar scale on its hands with a critical patch issued via Windows Update today. How's that for a 'scare your shorts off' headline? Someone got points for that.
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Microsoft is rebranding its unified-communications line-up from Lync to Skype for Business, and is readying the next releases of those products for the first half of 2015. Because nothing says 'business' like 'Skype me'
And of course they will also completely update the UI every six months to maintain tradition associated with that name.
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I don't think "lynch me" was better 
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So they finally found the missing linc?
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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It’s proven that Clang is a mature compiler For C and C++as GCC and Microsoft compilers, but what makes it special is the fact that it’s not just a compiler. It’s also an infrastructure to build tools. It makes such a catchy chorus, "Clang, clang, clang went the trolley"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Clang, clang, clang went the trolley"
If it's so flexible that it can be used with many languages, then why don't they call it "dolang"? That would be so fine.
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Two ears and a tail for that one. Well done, sir. 
TTFN - Kent
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Actually, it is LLVM that is multi-language, providing the underpinning of CLang. CLang is an implementation of C, C++ and Objective-C implemented using LLVM.
That is made pretty clear in the article, I thought.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Nvidia is releasing the software it created to prove that the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing was real. Yeah. A company that specializes in CG says it wasn't. That should convince the 'skeptics'.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Yeah. A company that specializes in CG says it wasn't. That should convince the 'skeptics'.
It should convice them.
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MIT professor still confident particle is Higgs boson, but would still be excited if it’s something else. Sorry folks, that was just Bob.
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Sorry, they detected my farts but haven't realized it yet.
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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Your farts bring mass to the universe?
Heavy, man...
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Heavy, man
And that's why the correct application of punctuation is important.
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indeed. 
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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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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Because a site called "Computer World" is where I go when I want to read trusted information about high energy physics. 
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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Although, to be fair, I'm not sure you'd use a site called "Code Project" to aggregate announcements from such sites either.
(Unless, of course, you're referring to the blind watchmaker programmer herself).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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GitHub Enterprise is now available in an Amazon-hosted version for companies moving more infrastructure to the cloud. "Any problem in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection."
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Hyped technology, including the cloud, tends to be used where it does not belong. Naysayers help you avoid that mistake. "Here comes the sun, and I say it's all right"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Here comes the sun, and I say it's all right"
Beatles quote! Always upvote a Beatles lyric quote. Way to be musically literate. 
+5 lifepoints for you.
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