"One of the reasons this topic comes up in Microsoft circles is the
fact that so few Microsoft desktop applications use the CLR. As you
may be aware, there is a performance cost associated with running code
in the CLR and garbage collection often gets painted as the chief
offender."
http://douglaspurdy.com/2008/06/12/objective-c-20-garbage-collection/
"In the long term, we need to completely replace JavaScript and the
DOM with something designed to be safe from the ground up."
...noting that Firefox, and any browser generally, is a horrible
platform for applications.
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-TBPekxc1dLNy5DOloPfzVvFIVOWMB0li?p=865
Carter also set the objective that America not become more dependent on foreign oil than we were at that time, 30 years ago now. Reagan convinced us we didn't need a pessimist like that.
Mornin'.
(via Stefan Tilkov)
http://goosh.org/
e.g. type "place portland oregon (enter)"
"Mobile Me" --- are you f'ing kidding me???
Bah. http://www.apple.com/mobileme/
You can also get there from http://www.me.com/
Joy. So now I can say to my wife, upload those photos from your camera to "Mobile Me" then bring them down to your "My Documents".
Oh, wait. Could you please bring them down to *my* "My Documents"?
Gawd. "Live Mesh" seems perfectly sexy compared to "Mobile Me".
Eliot Miranda is one of those really smart VM implementors. He's been working on Smalltalk VMs for a long time, including one of the best: VisualWorks. After a brief sidetrack with the (fairly uninteresting IMO) Newspeak project, he's now at work on a better VM for Squeak. He's got a blog about that.
(via Bill de hÓra)
If I were the author of a significant IDE product I would take a fair bit of time to understand the history of my marketplace. Apparently Dmitry Jemerov does not follow that philosophy. I guess that has not hurt his success any. So I have to wonder how much the history of our field matters to its future.
Consider the following image of a Symbolics hypertext system from the mid-late 1980s. Who noticed at the time? Who would've believed such a thing was possible then or even now using a "dynamic language"? 150 years from now what does anyone need to remember? A couple of blips maybe: Netscape and Excel?
Dmitry writes...
Groovy is interesting, but it's a dynamic language and has all the problems of dynamic languages. It's OK for small pieces of code. But building something the size of IntelliJ IDEA [in a dynamic language] would be a complete nightmare.So let's consider history's demonstration that this is false.
Since Smalltalk I've generally been using Eclipse for work stuff, but the effort in extending the environment has just been too much work for me to invest in, though I've tried a few times. I settle for writing ant scripts; that's how bad things have gotten - I'm programming in XML.And Joe Gregorio writes...What's on the horizon? Eclipse has E4. Which seems like it's largely a cleanup/sanitization of Eclipse, vs a complete re-think. I suspect I will write as many extensions for E4 as I have for the previous versions of Eclipse. Perhaps I'll sit that out and wait for Steve Northover's E5. Frankly, I think it's time we started fresh; let's call it F1.
Poor old disrespected Smalltalk, all those years of work, all that cutting edge research, and nary a bit of credit, which is particularly galling if you think about the fact that, to date, the language that has benefited the most from Smalltalk is Java.
Mike Herrick's posted an opening at CSI doing the open source incl. Rails and JRuby. Good folks to work with.
