Anders Hejlsberg made TurboPascal. Pascal itself was created by Niklaus Wirth.
Wirth also created successors to Pascal and co-created an operating system and the hardware it ran/runs on.
Readit Newsxradionut commented on Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language (1981) lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-on-p... · Posted by u/brudgers
xradionut commented on MIPS Strikes Back: 64-bit Warrior I6400 Arrives anandtech.com/show/8457/m... · Posted by u/amardeep
I don't know if you saw this MIPS-based dev board being announced
http://blog.imgtec.com/powervr-developers/new-mips-creator-c...
It's currently unobtainium, it can't be purchased.
xradionut commented on Ask HN: I have to analyze 100M lines of Java – where do I start? · Posted by u/user1241320
Here's a suggestion I haven't seen:
Unless you have full management support, a skilled team, valid business reasons for this conversion, and expectations of succeeding, consider moving to another company/job.
You've been given the task of digital archeology/septic cleanup. Unless you like the tedium and stank, it's not going to bode well...
xradionut commented on MIPS Strikes Back: 64-bit Warrior I6400 Arrives anandtech.com/show/8457/m... · Posted by u/amardeep
MIPS hasn't gone anywhere. You can get PIC32 chips and boards based on them for various projects include the Open Source TenTec 506 Rebel radio.
While there's more tools and chips for ARM on small systems, I still prefer MIPS due to lower complexity/insanity of the tool chain.
It's hard to get any of the large system boards and multiprocessor chips without being an OEM.
xradionut commented on Learn regular expressions in about 55 minutes qntm.org/files/re/re.html... · Posted by u/melloclello
The most difficult part of regex isn't defining the problem. I'd say that one's easy. The hardest part is figuring out your regex months or years after you've written it!
I comment them at the time of creation and add them to my snippets file with the comment.
xradionut commented on Open Data Stack Exchange opendata.stackexchange.co... · Posted by u/jbcurtin2
There's a lot of open data available, depending on what you are looking for. If I had time, I could probably spend it on this SE and earn points, count coup, or whatever. Instead I'm working with a couple of user groups helping local programmers analysts learn how to dig into it. We have a few specific data sets that we use for different types of analysis, demographic, mapping and financial.
xradionut commented on TypeScript included with Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 blogs.msdn.com/b/somasega... · Posted by u/techbubble
If you have your own startup or small company or are a student, Microsoft has several options aimed at you:
- BizSpark for startups( http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/ )
- DreamSpark for students ( https://www.dreamspark.com/ )
and I think there are other options if you contact someone at your local Microsoft office.
I've just started using BizSpark (for a side project with 2 friends, so the "startup" term is a bit loose), and it's a great program.
It's still way too expensive, but their goal is to let you give it a try, and if your startup is doing well you won't mind paying U$ 10.000 or whatever if you're cashing millions :)
The first hit/dose is free.
On the other hand you do have companies that do make millions that are bailing on certain aspects of Microsoft tools and servers due licensing costs and increases. I've been involved in IT budgeting for almost two decades and the CFOs don't always sign the check just because it's an IBM/Microsoft/Oracle solution.
Software cost for my side projects: $0
xradionut commented on Ruby 2.1.1 is released and Ruby turns 21 ruby-lang.org/en/news/201... · Posted by u/petercooper
I was a bit surprised about the age, and wondering where it fits into the timeline, so I put together the following list (years corresponding to the "appeared" indication taken from Wikipedia). (There will likely be nicer lists elsewhere..)
1957 (57) Fortran
1958 (56) Lisp
1958 (56) ALGOL
1959 (55) COBOL
1964 (50) APL
1970 (44) Pascal
1970s Forth
1972 (42) C
1972 (42) Prolog
1972 (42) Smalltalk
1973 (41) ML
1975 (39) Scheme
1978 (36) TeX
1982 (32) PostScript
1983 (31) C++
1983 (31) Objective-C
1984 (30) Common Lisp
1986 (28) Erlang
1987 (27) Perl
1990 (24) Haskell
1991 (23) Python
1993 (21) Ruby (according to article)
1994 (20) ANSI Common Lisp
Mid 1990s Dylan
1995 (19) Java
1995 (19) Ruby (according to Wikipedia)
1995 (19) JavaScript
1996 (18) Ocaml
2000 (14) C#
2003 (11) Scala
2003 (11) Factor
2005 (9) F#
2007 (7) Clojure
2008 (6) Nimrod (according to speedydeletion.wikia.com)
2009 (5) CoffeeScript
2009 (5) Go
2012 (2) Rust
2012 (2) Julia
Lua 1994
Icon 1977
xradionut commented on Throwing in the towel on becomming a programmer waterstreetgm.org/throwin... · Posted by u/saltcod
xradionut commented on Throwing in the towel on becomming a programmer waterstreetgm.org/throwin... · Posted by u/saltcod
The OP has "dabbled", he hasn't committed himself to a single language nor a good regimen/project to succeed. Let's look at this quote:
"On top of that, there’s a constant din of “Python’s not for you, it’s for them ({scientists, academics, hackers, statisticians, someone else})” out there if you look up stuff about Python."
Really? Sounds like a bad excuse to me. There's a fuck-ton of tutorials and books for Python beginners of all ages and backgrounds. It's one of the few languages I recommend to newbies for that reason, beside the fact it's easy to be productive in. We have a full spectrum of users at local meetups and I chat with the scientist and tutor the beginners. Python users are diverse as a crowd at a state fair.
And coding isn't programming. There's a lot more to know than the syntax of a few languages and APIs. It's a whole universe to explore and learn how to control and leverage. You can find a cool project, then drop down the rabbit hole the rest of your life, enjoying the beauty...