Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Tue May 21 14:34:11 CDT 2013
Hi Shamil: As the old axiom goes: People are always more willing to pay for work to be redone than to pay more for the work to be done right the first time. Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Salakhetdinov Shamil Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 12:25 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] TIOBE Programming Community Index for May 2013 Hi Jim -- <<< good coding and the new generations of programming languages sort of "handle(?)" inconsistencies, >>> Yes, "sort of" - but actually they don't - "there will be no miracles here"... <<< good technique does not ever have to be really learned. >>> Good techniques have to be learned - "there is no substitute for hard work"... -- Shamil Вторник, 21 мая 2013, 10:02 -07:00 от "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca>: >Hi Shamil: > >Your attached article is very interesting and it hits upon a few points that >have not really been addressed or completely resolved in either the CPU >(multi-core) or in any kernel. It is also interesting that the software >design used in our LAN cards may be a partial solution to these problems. > >On the other point of your post, I would say that I have been working with >software, though built on C, has made few attempts to isolate "C"'s inherent >weaknesses. One misnamed or misused variable/class/function or not running >garbage collection in a timely manner and the package bails unceremonious to >the desktop killing either the virtual drive or NTDVM in the process. > >I am of two minds on this programming position. It is a good lesson to have >to learn how to properly program and be able to carefully manage your code >but in today's world where getting immediate results is much more important >than good coding and the new generations of programming languages sort of >"handle(?)" inconsistencies, good technique does not ever have to be really >learned. > >Even such browsers as IE, Chrome and FF bleeds everywhere and if you running >internet testing all day, without restarting, these packages slowly keep >eating all the memory, run slower and will probably crash the system if left >long enough. Considering that browsers are the next desktop, to me it is a >little sad. > >Jim > >-----Original Message----- >From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com >[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Salakhetdinov >Shamil >Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 12:25 AM >To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues >Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] TIOBE Programming Community Index for May 2013 > > Hi Hans -- > >No, because *nowadays* and many years to come(?) true multi-core programming >on general purpose computers (desktop, laptop. moblie/ARM,...) and OSes (MS >Windows, Linux/Unix, ...) would be possible to do by using only C/C++ - >http://erratasec.blogspot.ru/2013/02/multi-core-scaling-its-not-multi.html# . >UZsfhbVplfA .. > >>... buffer overflows, memory leaks and illegible code... >Most of that could be prevented/captured by using solid programming >approaches as well as modern development/profiling tools... > >Thank you. > >-- Shamil <<< skipped >>> > _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com