I read this story on slashdot today where they announce a new parallel programming language by Microsoft. What is this new programming language about? It says Parallel Programming. But is it going to be an alternative/replacement for MPI, PVM, OpenMP and similar parallel libraries/frameworks? Any thoughts? ...
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 used to be a Java nerd back in college, but ever since then I haven't touched it. My work for the last 3-4 years has mostly been in Python and C++, and I have forgotten a lot of in's and out's of Java. So, what is the best (and fastest) way to get back in the groove with a language? Any suggestions on small projects that make you use ...
Which programming languages and technologies are used to build Workday software? ...
In C I did not notice any effect of the extern keyword used before function declaration. At first I thought that when defining extern int f(); in a single file forces you to implement it outside of the file's scope. However I found out that both: extern int f(); int f() {return 0;} and extern int f() {return 0;} compile just fine,...
So, a long long time ago I used to program procedurally initially with Basic on my first BBC Model B and then a small amount of Pascal at university as well as assembly along the way. Then along came OO which seemed much more sensible all round and that was all I used with C++, Perl, Java, Ruby..... Coming back to programming non web s...
I'm looking for a series of 'tells' that indicate what a website was written in and/or what web framework is being used and maybe what web server software is used. Obvious examples would be the page extensions, http headers, page features, like VIEWSTATE, cookie names and such. Obviously, these tells could be faked or suppressed so I'm n...
If you take an existing C code base and compile it with a C++ compiler, what sort of issues can you expect to crop up? For example, I think that assigning an integer to an value with an enumerated type will fail in C++, whereas it's legal ( if a bit nasty ) in C. If I don't wrap all my C files in "extern C { ... }", am I going to get na...
My question vaguely relates to this one. However, it doesn't address the techniques or practices. I am reading The Pragmatic Programmer and it strongly advocates refactoring code as often as you can. However, it doesn't go into detail about how to do that and how often. How do you guys go about refactoring your code, and how often do y...
I need to write an app that reads a config file with info on the menu bars it needs to create. Normally, I'd just use java, but I need the application to have the least run-time dependencies possible, this includes not forcing the user to download anything, even JRE, let alone something like NET Framework. So I need something that can ...
I am currently working as an automation test engineer (writing functional scripts for software products). I have experience working with watir, watin and webaii. Also i have an intermediate level knowledge of C# and progrmming concepts. Right now i am very much interested and eager to learn a new technology on my own which is in demand a...
What are some ways in which I can write code that is easily modified? The one I have learned from experience is that I almost always need to write one to throw away. That way I have developed a sense of the domain knowledge and program structure required before coding the actual application. ...
Hi Wikipedia says: A programming language is a machine-readable artificial language designed to express computations that can be performed by a machine, particularly a computer. Programming languages can be used to create programs that specify the behavior of a machine, to express algorithms precisely, or as a mode of human communic...
With all the magic you can do in today's browser I wonder if Javascript will become much more prominent on the server side or as a viable alternative for application programming. I ask this because I have poked around with many programming languages except Javascript. Maybe it's time to dive into it, before everybody is wanting and it's ...
Programming languages vary a lot in the syntax they use. The syntax being a bunch of keywords is what we have to deal with in every language. But from the gut feeling not all of these keywords seem to be wisely chosen. One reason might be that a word is a keyword that you would want to use often in your code but you are not allowed to us...
I needed sheets for quick references particular language syntax. I have found this that might help Any other suggestions? ...
I am a newbie who has been programming for a few years. There are lots of programming languages for different purposes. While stating reasons, what would be a good set of languages to learn in order to be competitive in today's environment. I'll try me best to tag this question properly as it's not direct programming question. Note...
Question As stated, have you any tips to help grok / understand / get-your-head-around declarative programming languages? Or is it simply a case that you’ve to immerse yourself in the language and it’s syntax, until it seeps in, until you get that golden moment where you Get It. This isn’t really an option as I can no longer lock mysel...
Io is a nice cross-platform prototype-based object-oriented language. Does anyone know of any GUI library for Io? Io's name does not make it Google friendly. ...
Java doesn't. (It's just convention) Delphi does. I believe C# does. What other languages do? Edit: I should have given an example: Delphi: (beware, it's been a while, I may get this wrong) type TSomething = class fEmployeeNum: String; property employeeNum: String read fEmployeeNum write setEmployeeNum; end; proce...