Joe Shearer
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Hugely amusing to see that this turned into a chat session about block-structured languages! But I have ISSUES!
The man was writing a column in The Hindu, works for a TV channel (wonder what he's doing in the Gulf).
The Hindu is arguably the best in India, once The Statesman and then the Times of India were raped by their respective proprietors. It has a leftist core somewhere deep, deep inside, which bothers me. Fortunately, the basic journalistic qualities of the professionals there takes care of most things.
You can count on it to be deadly accurate. It verifies, and verifies, and verifies; if it's in The Hindu, it's accurate. Very often, others' headlines are small columns; other headlines are not even listed.
Its journalists don't take PR gifts, not yet, anyway. They are snooty about belonging to The Hindu and about these ethical systems, to the rage of other rag, tag, and bobtail people belonging to rag, tag and bobtail publications.
I'm glad my daughter worked with them for a couple of years. But then, being half-Iyengar, it was kind of a rite of passage for her.
Please tell me I didn't read that. It curled my toes in fear.
I thought Balaguruswamy was BASIC; did he write a C text?
Lafore, Deitel and Deitel, Kanetkar? Prata i can understand, I like him. Whatever happened to reading the standards? K&R for instance; does no one read K&R any more? It's fantastic good reading, apart from being authoritative (canonical? but its not ANSI standard, so I guess not). And have you good people never read the one and only Stroustrup? If only for the pleasure of the read itself? He writes so well!
Be aware that I write this as a caveman, a 4GL person, who came in by way of COBOL and then (very tentative, but increasing enthusiasm and finally a smug satisfaction) in Pascal. There were a handful of AI programmes with LISP; overall, a very conventional technical career, with a great deal of discomfort for the monkey tricks OOPs get up to, and I hate the complete anarchy of PC-type programming and the Al Qaeda environment of PC security. After RACF, it's a pain to contemplate how you can f*** around with low level stuff in PCs. But there you are; this is the world of Web 2.0, no more <2.0 second response on a green-screen monitor.
For some part of my professional life, we were working with Ada, which is the only reliable thing when you deal with stuff that goes bang. It was unthinkable (in Anglo-Saxon circles) to contemplate even C for those applications. But not in French or German circles; they cheerfully got into C pretty early, and <gulp!> don't look now, but someone tells me that C++ has crept in as well! Scary, that; what next? Programming aerospace apps in Java?
It's your world, guys; I wish you all the best.
you are right, security of pakistan has gone down, pakistan is a good place to have a nice trip but its a pause of such activities for now.. come back later
i ve heard 'the hindu' is a good news paper
The man was writing a column in The Hindu, works for a TV channel (wonder what he's doing in the Gulf).
The Hindu is arguably the best in India, once The Statesman and then the Times of India were raped by their respective proprietors. It has a leftist core somewhere deep, deep inside, which bothers me. Fortunately, the basic journalistic qualities of the professionals there takes care of most things.
You can count on it to be deadly accurate. It verifies, and verifies, and verifies; if it's in The Hindu, it's accurate. Very often, others' headlines are small columns; other headlines are not even listed.
Its journalists don't take PR gifts, not yet, anyway. They are snooty about belonging to The Hindu and about these ethical systems, to the rage of other rag, tag, and bobtail people belonging to rag, tag and bobtail publications.
I'm glad my daughter worked with them for a couple of years. But then, being half-Iyengar, it was kind of a rite of passage for her.
Please tell me I didn't read that. It curled my toes in fear.
Try Balaguruswamy and if C++ is concerned - Robert Lafore all the way....
I thought Balaguruswamy was BASIC; did he write a C text?
C++ is hard in general man!
C programming - Deitel&Deitel and(Better) C Primer Plus- Stephen Prata . Kanetkar's book is for ancient "turbo c"no(c99) standards..
Lafore, Deitel and Deitel, Kanetkar? Prata i can understand, I like him. Whatever happened to reading the standards? K&R for instance; does no one read K&R any more? It's fantastic good reading, apart from being authoritative (canonical? but its not ANSI standard, so I guess not). And have you good people never read the one and only Stroustrup? If only for the pleasure of the read itself? He writes so well!
Be aware that I write this as a caveman, a 4GL person, who came in by way of COBOL and then (very tentative, but increasing enthusiasm and finally a smug satisfaction) in Pascal. There were a handful of AI programmes with LISP; overall, a very conventional technical career, with a great deal of discomfort for the monkey tricks OOPs get up to, and I hate the complete anarchy of PC-type programming and the Al Qaeda environment of PC security. After RACF, it's a pain to contemplate how you can f*** around with low level stuff in PCs. But there you are; this is the world of Web 2.0, no more <2.0 second response on a green-screen monitor.
For some part of my professional life, we were working with Ada, which is the only reliable thing when you deal with stuff that goes bang. It was unthinkable (in Anglo-Saxon circles) to contemplate even C for those applications. But not in French or German circles; they cheerfully got into C pretty early, and <gulp!> don't look now, but someone tells me that C++ has crept in as well! Scary, that; what next? Programming aerospace apps in Java?
It's your world, guys; I wish you all the best.
we were just talking about the basics at college.
