programming-languages

Would Pyhon be the best language to use to create a program to run a search on a website every x minutes, parse the results, and send out the parsed information via email?

What program language would be best to create a program that would query a website every x minutes on a windows system? Also, after getting the information, I would like to parse it and send the parsed information via email. I had asked a similar question yesterday and it seemed like Python was the way to go but some also suggested wget...

What are the dangers of a language that is "owned"?

C# is owned by Microsoft and Java is owned by Sun/Oracle. What dangers does that really expose to the users of these languages? Has anyone felt their code was "owned"? Do projects like Mono help keep the "owners" honest? Please do not make this a holy war of languages. I just want to know if it's rational to avoid such languages or ...

Simple flash application builder?

Are there any relatively simple programs for building flash applications. I want to add a basic card game to my site, that can keep track of the user's score. The site right now is built in just html, though I will be changing it over to php shortly to implement a log in system. I'd really like to avoid having to learn actionscript on...

Complicated condition

I have predefined item combination (for example brand1|brand2|brand3 etc) in the table. i like to collect brands and check against with predefined table data. For example i collected brand1|brand2|brand3 then i can do get some value form that predefined table(it meets the condition). How can i check? brands would be unlimited. also bra...

Basic ruby question: the { } vs do/end construct for blocks.

Possible Duplicates: Using do block vs brackets {} What is the difference or value of these block coding styles in Ruby? Why does: test = [1, 1, 1].collect do |te| te + 10 end puts test Works, but not: puts test = [1, 1, 1].collect do |te| te + 10 end And yet this works: puts test = [1, 1, 1].collect { |te| ...

Best way to tokenize and parse programming languages in my application

I'm working on a tool that will perform some simple transformations on programs (like extract method). To do this, I will have to perform the first few steps of compilation (tokenizing, parsing and possibly building a symbol table). I'm going to start with C and then hopefully extend this out to support multiple languages. My question i...

Can I programming directly on my cell phone? I'm using sprint touch pro 2.

Hi guys, I want to do programming directly on my cell phone. Do you guys know this kind of programming environment available? The programming language is irrelevant. Thanks. ...

Why does PHP have a $ sign in front of variables?

In PHP and some other scripting languages have the $var syntax while Java and other languages we can do just var. Is there any theory behind it? Does it help them to parse. If not why would they choose to tack on an extra character in front? ...

How can I build an application like Thunderbird? Which language should I select?

Hi, I don't want to build the Thunderbird functionality. I just want to build a project with plug-in features, cross platform, and easy to install. Is there any document which point to the development of Firefox or Thunderbird? I know the Thunderbird is build in C++, then how can i get these kind of graphics and all other function. P...

What language makes a strong developer these days?

What modern language is good at creating strong developers these days? Python, Ruby, C++, C sharp ... developing for the iPhone? ...

Is there a natural language web application framework?

Is there a natural language web application framework? Maybe something like http://inform7.com ? Maybe something like: Make a website called My_homepage at my_homepage.com The homepage for My_homepage is called mainpage mainpage has a title of 'Home' mainpage has text at the top saying 'My homepage' ...

web and flex developer carrer question ......

i'm a student in computer science and been learning flex and actionscript 3.0 since 4 months. i know its easy to program in mxml and actionscript 3.0 is pretty easy with bunch of classes. When i try to code in c++,c in some contests, my algorithms go weak, no efficiency and i'm getting scared!! since i'm a student, i've no experienc...

Interactive programming language?

Is there a programming language which can be programmed entirely in interactive mode, without needing to write files which are interpreted or compiled. Think maybe something like IRB for Ruby, but a system which is designed to let you write the whole program from the command line. ...

What statically typed languages are similar to Python?

Python is the nicest language I currently know of, but static typing is a big advantage due to auto-completion (although there is limited support for dynamic languages, it is nothing compared to that supported in static). I'm curious if there are any languages which try to add the benefits of Python to a statically typed language. In par...

Applications created with real basic (real studio) for mac or windows

i have search high and low on the internet and it does not exist. i cant find a single website that shows a few applications created with realbasic. i saw a video that shows the user going to realbasic.com/community/ and it shows a load of applications created using realbasic. would anyone know where i can find this information. that lin...

Advice software to create flow-charts of programm

Hi. Can you advice me software to create flow-charts for program logic. My problem is that I've created complicated algorithm with lots of if...else and I need to create flow-chart for all of that to avoid mistakes. The example of what I want to have is But I don't want it to create flow-chart from source code. I want to create it mysel...

What is 'Language Performance'?

I'm reading a presentation in which different programming languages are being compared. And one of characteristics which is measured is 'Language Performance'. What does it mean? ...

Languages made in C#

Hi All Does anybody know of any languages written in C# that I can play around with and learn from? Thank you P.S. I have searched for them but I couldn't find anything. ...

Need a secure Cross platform gui language

It may sound like a lot, but I am looking for a language that is cross platform that I can compile into a single stand alone exe. The source code needs to be secure (Not just hidden) and have some sort of gui toolkit. Do any exist? ...

What is wrong with this design? Overriding or overloading of java.util.HashMap

This question was asked to me in MS interview. I wanna know the exact design issue in this piece of code. Code was already given, needed to find the design issue. I have class MyHashMap which extends java HashMap class. In MyHashMap class I have to keep some information of employees. Key in this map will be firstName+lastName+Address...