What are the things that Java (the language and platform) got categorically right? In other words, what things are more recent programming languages preserving and carrying forward? Some easy answer are: garbage collection, a VM, lack of pointers, classloaders, reflection(?) What about language based answers? Please don't list the ...
I'm a blind college student who is taking an introduction to programming class that focuses on user interface design. The class is using processing which is completely inaccessible. I'm looking for a language that will allow me to create GUI's with out drag and drop and hopefully be smart enough to do most of the layout with out forcing ...
English is not my first language. Sometimes I can not understand some technical papers or articles because of the language of the author, not because the topic is complex. Does it mean "I cannot enhance my programming skills except via enhancing my English first"? ...
I suppose I could take a text and remove high frequency English words from it. By keywords, I mean that I want to extract words that are most the characterizing of the content of the text (tags ) . It doesn't have to be perfect, a good approximation is perfect for my needs. Has anyone done anything like that? Do you known a Perl or Pyt...
Their roadmap says their next release will be in March 2009, and that they'll be adding a new 'runtime language'. I'm hoping its either Java or PHP but realy not sure, and would like to know which language is the most probable so i can plan accordingly for a project I plan on hosting with google app engine. Any ideas? ...
What would be the best way to detect what programming language is used in a snippet of code? ...
The halting problem cannot be solved for turing complete languages and it can be solved trivially for some non TC languages like regexes where it always halts. I was wondering if there are any languages where it has both the ability to halt and not halt and there is also an algorithm that can determine whether it halts. ...
My problem is with understanding the finer point of mixed langage programming and accessing API's in external libraries. My skills at C++ are nonexistent and at VB, mediocre. I have a c++ dll compiled (portaudio library), and am trying to access it from VB (Visual Studio 2005). I am getting MarshallDirectiveException errors when call...
Is there a way to detect the Language of the OS from within a c# class? ...
I have a vb project which calls functions in a dll. The dll is created in a separate vs project (portaudio), which is written in c. The dll c project compiles clean and builds the required dll, which I am currently dropping in c:\windows\system to vb runtime can see it. VB Project lives in c:\devprojects\vbtest C Project lives in c:\...
Im creating a fast application with ruby on rails, and after doing a lot of scaffolding and validation im very happy with some of the features that are embeded in RoR... but i live in mexico and all my users would love the application to be in spanish of course. So, i noticed theres a lot of functions that write actual text in english fo...
What is the purpose of anonymous { } blocks in C style languages (C, C++, C#) Example - void function() { { int i = 0; i = i + 1; } { int k = 0; k = k + 1; } } Edit - Thanks for all of the excellent answers! ...
Is it simply a matter of inheritance? C++ was case-sensitive because C was, Java is case-sensitive because C++ is, etc? Or is there a more pragmatic reason behind it? ...
As a response to this thread: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/457822/what-are-the-things-java-got-right What are the things C# got right? Please don't list the things C# did wrong, just right. ...
Why are functional languages always tailing behind C in benchmarks? If you have a statically typed functional language, it seems to me it could be compiled to the same code as C, or to even more optimized code since more semantics are available to the compiler. Why does it seem like all functional languages are slower than C, and why d...
My current question is what does the << operator do in Ruby? But my real question is how would I search Google to find the answer? ...
Hi. Is there some default Windows scripting language that comes pre-installed on XP and Vista (Similar to how OS X comes with Python and/or Linux comes with Perl)? I am aware of Batch scripting but I am hoping for something a little more robust. Thanks note - I am on a Linux box so if you guys could give your 2 cents on the Window...
As stated in the title, what is the best language for coding hacker tools? For example, brute forcers, vulnerability scanners, and others. ...
What programming languages were used to develop the game 'World of Warcraft'? ...
i found a translator for c++ to c# , but it doesn't work. (Code2Code.net) Test with cout int main(int argc, char** argv) { cout << "Hello World"; return 0; } The Results becomes public static int Main(string [] argv) { cout << "Hello World"; return 0; } My Question to you, is = is it any other translator that works for C++ t...