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Turbo Pascal, because the standard string ending in null caused my tests to run much longer in C than in Turbo Pascal, which used a length at the beginning of the string.
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Bruce, you are completely right. It's nothing more than a business and a formula of 'keep the momentum going'
Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer.
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I miss developing C in DOS, but Embedded is still fun. There was something comforting about stable non-changing tool sets
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... with an "I don't care" option. I'm interested in seeing the number of respondents that choose that one.
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Would be even more interesting to see if there were more than one option like that, but with increasing levels of profaity...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. Mark Twain
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I don't care.
People who upvoted him please follow with your reply.
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only the "cult of Apple" will care, for the rest of us, if Apple went out of business tomorrow, I don't think we would even notice.
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I listened to the keynotes via TWIT podcast, and they said they doing half of these things already.
Emulation, porting tools, lead time. Intel mac support is like 4-5 years as they just released a new model.
Its one of the few companies that when they make announcements its with "and its available today" (except they been slipping on that for the last few years)
In terms of emulation, there is a great hidden story at Microsoft making an android (or might have been ios) emulation for the windows phone platform. But was so effective that it would mean that no one would be bothered to tweak/make for windows phone that the project was buried.
x86 is slowly kicking and screaming out the door. Unreal Engine (Fortnite) runs everywhere, so the bastion that is PC gaming I think is the main last thing holding up x86. Legacy apps can easily run in emulation and not look like its emulated.
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Apple has done this sort of thing before.
Backward compatibility is not important for Apple.
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Apple is an evolving company, so it isnt too hard, because actual code mostly will compile and run. And they will provide some emulation software.
Because MacOS is based on some UNIX it is all bullet proof.
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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And if people would get angry enough to stop building apps for Apple, Apple might learn (maybe). until then, people keep making apps, and users continue to use the Apple platform.
No apps, no users.
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I am certain that all code written to Apple's iOS guidelines will compile cleanly for ARM, and run efficiently.
/sarcasm
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Popcorn good.......
Pass the salt please, thanks.
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Missing the "Could care less" choice.
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For mobile, there are the SDKs and that's it. For personal computers and workstations, where using Intel managed to grant them a brief resurgence, who cares, Apple is still all but formally not a player.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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My company is primarily a Windows (C#/aspnet/aspcore/xamarin) shop; our dev laptops are all MBPs configured to dual boot so in addition to W10 for daily use with Real Visual Studio (tm), we've got OSX available when needed to do an iOS app or to debug Safari problems.
Windows on ARM is, and probably always will be, a sad joke. That means Arm-Macs won't be suitable as replacements for our current laptops; and I know there will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth from IT and Bean Counting at the prospect of having to buy (even fractionally, ie shared/loaner systems) more than 1 laptop/developer.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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Take a look at the Surface Pro line of tablets. Except for those few in most companies who need the CPU power these are excellent machines.
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I wrote: we've got OSX available when needed to do an iOS app or to debug Safari problems.
obermd wrote: Take a look at the Surface Pro line of tablets. Except for those few in most companies who need the CPU power these are excellent machines.
Any variation of [insert windows laptop brand here] will fail the universal laptop criteria because it can't dual boot into OSX any more than an Arm-Mac will be able to dual boot into Windows.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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Usually is the arm that moves toward the apple.
(Quickly taking my coat)
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From a development point of view, giving (or selling) Apple to Google would eventually mean having 1 less mobile platform to support. Thus meaning less pain for developers.
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A single monopolist Megacorp?
Thanks, but no, thanks.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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One browser to rule them all and in the darkness . . .
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That being I couldn't give an 's turd what apple does.
Oh - wait - another good answer would be: they just stop making the overpriced turds.
(the choices are so useless I didn't pick any - five precious rep points left on the table)
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Have an upvote to compensate for the missing 5 points - even if I disagree with you.
Apple products are really useful: they indicate to the casual observer the people who really will buy any old tat if you market it right.
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