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(OP shamelessly stolen from Jasconius)
We are going to do OP by committee! Talk about your favorite languages/frameworks and why they are better than everyone else's.
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We are going to do OP by committee! Talk about your favorite languages/frameworks and why they are better than everyone else's.
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Jasconius wrote:Here's what I am working with these days in no important order:
Language: Python
Framework: Django
Purpose: Web Development++
Summary: Django is what PHP contributors wish for in their darkest dreams. Django provides intensely incredible functionality to generate small to medium data driven web applications in minutes. A pretty decent ORM provides a healthy layer of abstraction from database development and allows people who are most comfortable with a traditional scripting environment (read: me) to compete with that 14 year old from Slovenia who got a MySQL book for their birthday. I'm trying to close my first official Django development freelance contract this week.
Python is what it is. A simple, slick programming language with a light syntax and flexible rules that I think is a great language for new programmers. Python does everything including exploring Mars.
Other Links and Reading: http://djangobook.com/ && The Definitive Guide to Django, 2nd Edition
Language: Objective-C
Framework: Cocoa/UIKit
Purpose: iPhone/OS X development
Summary: Obj-C is a thin veneer over ANSI-C enabling OOP and other neat features. Cocoa is the framework upon which all depends when it comes to Mac development, much like Win32 for Windows. My feelings on Cocoa are mixed, the learning curve is steep. I am currently enjoying the tiny bit of abstraction it provides for OpenGL. I am developing an iPhone application for the retail chain I work in-house for, and I just got taken on as a contractor for an iPhone game developer.
Language: Actionscript 3
Framework: Flash
Purpose: Multimedia on the web
Summary: This got me a job, all my jobs really. Flash has evolved in the last decade from an annoying trend to an underground success in the world of RIA's thanks to Flex. ATG, the worlds leading eCommerce engine, just redid their entire commerce administration tool in Flex and I hear great things about it. Traditional Flash (what I do) is in steady decline as non-proprietary web technologies evolve and become mainstream, but with a high dollar creative team, nothing can compare for raw presentation value.
Other reading: GoToAndLearn.com
ASimPerson wrote: »Language: C
Framework: Aahahahaha
Purpose: My job
Summary: C and its descendants (C++/Java/C#/etc.) are the most popular programming languages in the world. (As co-inventor Dennis Ritchie supposedly said, "C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.") The web browser you're using, the OS, most of your applications, most embedded software, the software on your router, the software on your ISP's router, the software on your game console, etc., were all written in C (well, or in C++).
For my job, I write in straight C. No libraries, no frameworks, no C++, no nothin'. C is a programming language for Real Men (tm), which means that there's no memory management and you're free to crash your program in various horrific ways. The trade-off for this is speed and size, attributes which give C its staying power - though proper C is losing favor as an application development language to C++, C#, and the like, it's found a second life in embedded applications and other small devices. I also think there's a certain elegance to the syntax - it's a language from an era when you didn't have a lot of memory, so statements are terse and lack the cruft of some more modern languages (*cough*C++*cough*). And best of all, no right minded C programmer would use LongVariableNamesLikeThis.
There's no shortage of manuals and documentation for the various incarnations of C, but the best reference is still from the source: The C Programming Language, by Kernighan and Ritchie. This book is so ubiquitous and standard that it's known simply as K&R in the field.
Donkey Kong wrote: »Language: Python
Framework: Pygame/PyOpenGL
Purpose: Game Development
Summary: Pygame is an extensive wrapper of the cross-platform SDL frameworks, specifically geared toward game development. Pygame takes care of loading assets, playing back sounds and music, drawing to the screen, handling keyboard and USB gamepad input, and can even capture live images from webcams on most platforms.
Pygame is also aware of PyOpenGL, the OpenGL binding for Python, and will gladly create a window complete with OpenGL context. Add 3 lines of code and suddenly you can make OpenGL drawing calls. No fuss.
Anyone with some knowledge of Python can create a working, playable 2D game demo in under a week. With minimal effort, this game will run on Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux, even the 3D bits, with no problems.
Other Links and Reading: http://www.pygame.org/news.html
Language: PHP
Framework: None (debating between CodeIgniter and Zend Framework)
Purpose: Web Development
PHP is probably the most ubiquitous server-side language around right now, although its been besieged by others on all sides. It's a simple, but bloated language, which suffers from a convoluted past and a stubborn refusal by the devs to trim the fat.
A lot of its popularity stems from how easy it is for newcomers to get results. This low barrier to entry, and PHP's ability to change from script blocks to blocks of HTML on the fly, means that there's a ton of shitty PHP code floating around out there.
Language: JavaScript
Framework: jQuery (looking for one a bit more complex to play with)
Purpose: Web Development
JavaScript is the most widely used programming language on the planet, and one of the most misunderstood. It doesn't behave like other languages, and this difference leads to confusion and frustration. It runs on the client (web browser), and can be turned off. Despite this, it's the driving force behind most of the interactive web apps out there today. Ever use Google Maps or GMail? Yeah, that's JavaScript.
When people talk about JavaScript development today, they tend to mean AJAX, which stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. Essentially, this is a programming technique that allows portions of a web page to show new data without a complete page refresh. Again, look at Google's stuff for examples in action.
Language: C#
Framework: .NET 3.5
Purpose: Web Development (although it can be used for other purposes - see: XBOX 360 Indie Games)
C# is a managed OOP programming language. The managed part means that you don't need to worry about memory management (although you can still dabble with pointers and dynamic memory if you want). I like the language a lot, as it stresses readability (at least, more than PHP). When code is written correctly, its very easy to read, and seems almost self-evident. Beyond that, it just works.
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That's completely understandable then...sucks for you, but completely understandable.
Yah, we'll have to #undef THREAD_TITLE first, but only if you do an #ifdef check before hand.
gcc -DTHREAD_TITLE=\"THIS IS MY THREAD TITLE NOW\" thread.c
:P
Templates were part of the original C++ standard (86), but compilers didn't fully support them until the early 2000's. Templates have been updated with a lot of things with the C++98 and 03 standards (of the most note would be partial template specialization).
Pre-2000 it was really hard to use templates though, because as I said, compiler support was shit across platforms.
While moving from ActionScript to Objective-C is a nice step...you are still left having to program in Objective-C
I would place macro issues fairly low on the daily annoyance list.
Jasconius: Fact of life I am finding.
Don't use just place #define guards around the header in C to stop the cycle?
Yah, but I think he just means the practice of including two headers inside of each other, regardless of guard placement or not (and I wish more compilers support MS's #pragma once :P would save a ton of guard code).
Now I am confused. The guards in each header should stop it from being included more than once since it has been defined already. This than allows any circular nonsense that you want.
Yah, it does, but the question is: Is the practice of requiring two headers to include each other a good idea, not really can it be done. Would the smarter approach be to split the common parts out somehow. I really don't have an answer, especially since I do C++ and use pre-deceleration which completely defeats the problem.
Yah, just saves me key strokes more than anything else. That's the benefit. I wasn't even aware it shaved compile time.
If I have
SomeControl.h
and
SomeOtherControl.h
and for whatever reason I need to include them in each other.... this happens a lot in Objective-C I am finding when you have parent/child relationships and need a two-way bridge between the objects... I mean, technically you can not properly cast objects and just call the methods blindly, but this can cause compiler warnings, and I hate compiler warnings.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Yeah, like I said, unless you're compiling a huge project (thousands of files) it's not even really noticeable. It just doesn't have to call the preprocessor to find out what it should be doing.
Granted it's not good design, but, why not just include them in the same file?
Objective-C doesn't have pre-decleration?
In C++ I would just do:
class MyClass; class MyOtherClass { public: MyClass* _myClass; };header2.h
class MyOtherClass; class MyClass { public: MyOtherClass* _myOtherClass };Then in any .cpp file where I need them both, I include them both, and the order of include is irrelevant.
So that's the answer then, I guess.
It's easy to work around though, unless you have a template class that needs to be fully header implemented. Then in the case of a circular dependency, you are probably stuck with a cyclic include.
Can you show me an example of what you mean? This intrigues me.
Header:
template<typename T> export class MyTemplateClass { template<typename T1> export void MyFunction(T1 arg); }Source:
#include "header.h" template<typename T1> void MyTemplateClass::MyFunction(T1 arg) { doSomeStuff(); }Only one C++ compiler actually supports it, and it was removed with C++0x.
(I may not have gotten the syntax on that 100% right, but that should give you the gist of the export keyword).
That, and if you're using a non-pointer of a pre-declared type in your definition of a structured type, you'll get that error too.
Right, because that's considered instantiation to the compiler.
This:
in your class actually causes the compiler to instantiate that object, and allocate storage for it. Which, as you said, will cause the incomplete type error.
Yeah, in the last thread I was lamenting that while we went over why including your source definitions using #include was oh god dammit just support export already.
Yah, well, it will never happen now. C++0x removes the feature, but keeps the 'export' keyword reserved.
Those bastards!
Yah...
But hey, in exchange we get lambdas and type inference, which I am a-okay with. I use the shit out of both of those features in my C++ work now.
I guess that means I should just go home early today. :-P
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Ahhh, juicy syntactic sugar, how we love thee.
Lets say I'm browsing an ASP.Net site, in this case a forum, and see a url that looks like this:
Now, obviously they hadn't actually created a page in their VS project for that particular topic. So are they just using some sort of URL rewriting method?
I've been playing around with ASP.Net again, and if I were building something like that, only way I could think of creating a topic display page that could display any given topic would be to use the query string like:
But obviously that looks uglier. So before I start googling, am I correct in my assumption?
If you are on IIS6, it's a pain in the ass involving, I think, a plugin module and some config file, and there are 90 billion blog posts about it.
If you are on IIS7, I believe you can just turn it on in your web config and rewrite rules go in as keys in your web config.
Keep in mind, most shared ASP.NET hosts are probably on IIS6 still.