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Re: Variable Ponderance
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Re: Variable Ponderance


  • Subject: Re: Variable Ponderance
  • From: Bill Briggs <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 22:18:55 -0300

At 6:35 PM -0500 10/3/04, John C. Welch wrote:
On 10/3/04 5:57 PM, "Bill Briggs" <email@hidden> wrote:

 s = Application('Finder.app').get(

  app.property('home').elements('files').byindex(1).property('name')
  )

Meh...as soon as I see dots, it's all C to me. Life is too short to use C.

When you see stars (*, **, ***) you should think of C. All those lovely pointers can make you see stars. :-)

Heh...no thanks. There's no reason why I need to type like I have tourette's just to move a file from point a to point b. I don't want to care what the bloody file system is, that's the OS's job. I don't need to know what the free memory address is, that's the OS's job.

In fairness to C, while you do have to allocate a quantity of memory, you don't normally have to worry about the addresses of the chunk you allocated. The compiler and OS kernel manage this behind your back. Now if you're talking assembly language, then you really do have to manage your memory and know what you have at what address. But it's FUN John, FUN. Where's your geeky desire for total control of the machine? Geez, if you don't know what's in your registers, what's the point of playing? ;-)


- web

who finds it aesthetically distasteful to use a CPU that doesn't support three operand instructions
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