Re: is it possible to install a desktop-manager without python and perl?
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 01:43:35PM +0800, 明覺 wrote:
> >
> > What about XML, YAML, HTML, javascript, and such? No more browser? No
> > more internet? :-)
> Of course I will use all of them, I even use windows vista everyday
> for playing games, that's my user role; for my programmer role, I will
> use Xml and html, for they are data files, not programming languages,
> I will try to write my own brower in C++, and use a subset of C++ to
> be the dhtml programming language instead of javascript.
> >
OK. I'll bite :) 15 years ago, I studied a couple of terms of evening
classes in programming in C.
One of the exercises thrown at us was: Build a reservation system for a
10 seat commuter aeroplane.
Small, simple, defined - but harder than it looks on paper. Go for it:
from your posts, you have the programming credentials.
Try the following exercise:
Build one in PHP / webforms (or Javascript) - "web languages", anyway.
Build one in pure Perl.
Build one in C or C++ writing to a MySQL/Postgres database.
Build one in C / C++ alone.
Build one in assembler.
Shouldn't take you long. That'll give you a much better feel for how/why
different approaches have their strengths and weaknesses. It will mean
you're porting code that should be familiar and that you can read and
understand because you wrote it. Its a limited problem: the real world
is harder.
For extra credit, put it up on a website somewhere and submit the URL
back here for the code to be analysed by others here.
Come back when you're done. Then decide whether your ideas are feasible.
AndyC
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