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Kent Sharkey wrote: After memory safety, what do you think is the next big step for compiled languages to take?
Compiled languages that let you write in scripted languages that are then compiled.
Oh wait...
Kent Sharkey wrote: I know - each variable runs within its own virtual machine! Total safety from buffer overruns!
Being safe from buffer overruns is like wearing a, ummm, oh, never mind. The damn thing can still break in other ways.
Marc
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The language doesn't matter as much as the implementation.
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Bug safety. 
!false - It's funny, because it's true
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Continue dreaming 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Direct-to-brain hardware links.
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it. A few hundred years later another traveler despairing as myself, may mourn the disappearance of what I may have seen, but failed to see.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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A new update for .NET Framework is now available for the AppContext class. The behavior of the AppContext class was recently regressed. The update returns the class to the correct behavior. "You put your right leg in, you take your right leg out..."
Just in case you're wondering why your code just broke without you touching it.
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It's the Rodney Dangerfield of computer programming, but COBOL is still in use—and really does deserve respect. Then you'll really hate it
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Reminds me of some C code I wrote ages ago that took a few hours to figure out why the loop executed only once:
for (int i=0; i<10; i++);
{
}
Marc
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I am still making that mistake. My brain just doesn't want to remember the correct order for some reason. 
TTFN - Kent
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That loop executed 10 times, the following statement executed once.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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You are correct, sir! You win the prize! Go to the nearest bank and demand your $200!
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Hence the reason why some people dislike terminating statements with a special symbol other than new line. If braces were always required for control statements then this kind of error would never occur.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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"Hate" is too strong a word. "Meh" works pretty well.
(PIEBALD turns to his left and sees a "Structured COBOL" book on his shelf...)
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I think any comment I could make should start at column 8.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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PeejayAdams wrote: ________I think any comment I could make should start at column 8.
FTFY
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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In its latest Security Intelligence Report, the company revealed that among all Windows 7 and Windows Vista PCs reporting statuses other than “Protected” to Microsoft, more than half of them have no antimalware software installed at all. "'Cause I'm as free as a bird now"
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Are they going to send a new wave of update to windows 10 for that computers?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Has anyone gone back and done a retrospective of Gartner Hype Cycles There's hype in our industry?
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Google researchers have now managed to develop an algorithm capable of erasing watermarks from images automatically, and with impeccable precision – all in the span of a couple of seconds. I'm sure all the stock photos sites are delighted.
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Stock photos will shrink drastically in size.
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Oracle continues to make progress Java EE 8, the enterprise edition for the Java platform, and moving forward it would like to advance Java EE within a more open and collaborative community. Horse, meet barn door
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The InfoWorld headline is even better, right?
Oracle doesn't want Java EE any more; open source community does[^]
You think maybe Oracle took on Java simply so they could sue Google (deep pockets) because they thought a bunch of money was on the table? 
Now Java is just a burden with all them dev-users griping about functionality, support, etc.. 
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It turns out that "But nobody uses Bing!" isn't actually true. It's not the size of the prize that makes you wise, the smarts of the charts is what warms our hearts
Or something like that.
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Last October, a flood of traffic from the Mirai botnet brought down major portions of the internet, blocking access to Amazon, Netflix, and other services for most of the northeastern US. Because 'flipping over the board' is so 20th century
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Shouldn't have used PHP
I have no idea what was used. I was just imagining it being picked up by a frustrated programmer. <tongue-in-cheek>
It Is The Absolute Verifiable Truth & Proven Fact
That Your Belly-Button Signature Ties
To Viviparous Mama.
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