- jessas! was war denn das? The ScriptX language is a blend of concepts found in Smalltalk, Dylan, Hypertalk, lisp, Coral Object Logo, C++, and Pascal. - http://www.art.net/Studio… - vor allem die kombi lisp/pascal find ich interessant - da dreht sich ja McCarthy ja im Grabe um (bzw. ich nehme an er lebt noch)
The scene: Milestones Restaurant, across the street from my workplace, today at lunch. I'm having eggs benedict with three other programmers. One of them, the chief software architect at a firm that provides data-mining software to Intel and several branches of the U.S. military, is talking about his supervisor.
A: He's a smart guy, but fuck, is he annoying.
B: How so?
A: He's one of those guys who makes a point of reminding you how much smarter he is than you every five minutes.
B: [Mimics looking at watch] Oh -- five minutes three seconds! Time to crush you with my towering intellect!
A: I hate talking to him. You say anything that's not precisely right, and he'll always jump in and fucking correct you. No matter how insignificant the detail, he's always ready to one-up you.
B: I hate that.
A: And it's not just about architecture or coding -- it's everything. I think I once pointed out a red sportscar and he corrected me by saying "No, it's actually burnt orange, not red."
Me: How very pendantic.
B: Fuuuuuuck!
Me: You know, he sounds like a Lisp programmer.
A: Holy shit, man, he is! How'd you know?
Me: Uh, actually, I was just kidding.
(http://www.kode-fu.com/ge…)
B: How so?
A: He's one of those guys who makes a point of reminding you how much smarter he is than you every five minutes.
B: [Mimics looking at watch] Oh -- five minutes three seconds! Time to crush you with my towering intellect!
A: I hate talking to him. You say anything that's not precisely right, and he'll always jump in and fucking correct you. No matter how insignificant the detail, he's always ready to one-up you.
B: I hate that.
A: And it's not just about architecture or coding -- it's everything. I think I once pointed out a red sportscar and he corrected me by saying "No, it's actually burnt orange, not red."
Me: How very pendantic.
B: Fuuuuuuck!
Me: You know, he sounds like a Lisp programmer.
A: Holy shit, man, he is! How'd you know?
Me: Uh, actually, I was just kidding.
(http://www.kode-fu.com/ge…)
- And there was .Mac, which Steve called "Web services for the rest of us." (Actually, it's more like "Web services from a company with no enterprise strategy.") - ein anderer blick auf apple's .mac - "In the future, I expect to see more software from Apple, ... The <29 new OS and $99 .Mac may be Apple's way of taxing the faithful to attract new customers from Windows and declare its independence from Microsoft. ... The way I add it up: By lowering hardware prices, Apple is making the Mac more attractive to switchers. By raising software prices and adding the .Mac service business, the company is making up for lost hardware revenue. And with its new and improved iApps, Apple is preparing for life without Microsoft." - http://www.zdnet.com/anch…