I just discovered the Falcon programming language today and would like to experiment with it a bit. As it is quite new, there is no ide. That's not a problem as I can use Vim. It would be helpful if there were a Vim syntax file for Falcon, but I can't seem to find one. Can someone point me to a Vim syntax file for Falcon? If not, I could...
Today is April 25, 2009 which in US format is abbreviated month-day-year, so today is 04-25-09. This line > CurrentTime().toString("%m-%d-%y") should print "04-25-09". Instead it prints "05-25-09". Why is that? According to the docs CurrentTime() returns a TimeStamp instance. TimeStamp has a toString() method which accepts a date/time...
Falcon is a programming language that supports multiple paradigms like message passing, OO, functional, and yet the code looks nice and clean. What do you think, does it have a chance to take off and be used as a general purpose programming glue language? Is it worth exploring? What are your impressions so far if you used it in real pro...
I am trying to find all possibilities of a 4 digit code using the numbers 1 thru 6. the same number can be used for any of the four (i.e. 1, 1, 1, 1). ...
I'm maintaining an app which adds/removes columns from increasingly large tables -- not often, but regularly (during deployment of new versions, and hence also frequently during development). Right now, we're using InnoDB. Performance of adding a column isn't great: it has to copy the entire table. I've read that the Falcon engine doe...