Great programmers don't just happen !
The world of computers is changing drastically. Now mobile computer devices are what everybody seems to want. The choices of operating systems for such mobile devices continues to grow, but the experience for users is not as impressive as one would hope for. Why ? Microsoft touts its new Windows 8 (aka. Metro) interface as fast and fluid. While it
Read moreThe alternate title for this article could be: Why I dislike C++, C# and other languages ? Let me start out by saying that I am a PowerBasic programmer. BASIC has been my primary language of choice and PowerBasic so far has been my favorite BASIC language. Now I used to like Visual Basic when it first came out, but
Read moreWatch Herb Sutters (Microsoft C++ expert) talk “Why C++?” ( http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/C-and-Beyond-2011-Herb-Sutter-Why-C ) and see how he describes the industries failure to develop software with performance in mind. Now as a long time Windows API developer myself, I will go one step further than Herb Sutter. I lay the blame on managed programming languages and the industries obsession with Object
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