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shawnhcorey replied to a thread Best programming language to learn next? in Programming Talk

I still think that learning assembler after you know the basics of coding will give you more insight to what a computer is capable of. I would...

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2 Days Ago

shawnhcorey replied to a thread Are escapes necessary (or preferable) in substituted regex patterns? in Programming Talk

The first one is preferred because there is less to understand. No, the character immediately after the "s" is the separator that separates...

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shawnhcorey replied to a thread Best programming language to learn next? in Programming Talk

Assembler. Sooner or later, you will have to learn how the machine actually works. ;)

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4 Days Ago

shawnhcorey replied to a thread Beginning to program in Programming Talk

A lot of scripting languages, Perl, Python, Ruby, will run on any machine. And since they are scripting languages, there is no need to compile them....

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shawnhcorey replied to a thread Beginners programming challenge #29 in Programming Talk

It seems to me that the hardest part of this challenge is figuring out the policy the program should follow and not the code.

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5 Days Ago

shawnhcorey replied to a thread Beginners programming challenge #29 in Programming Talk

I'm assuming you mean the Gregorian Calendar in France, which was adopted in 1582, not England's (and America's) of 1752.

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1 Week Ago

shawnhcorey replied to a thread How can I write my own smarthone OS? in Programming Talk

With effort. The reason for studying MINIX is to understand OSes in general. I don't know enough about mobile to know how big a task it would be. But...

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shawnhcorey replied to a thread How can I write my own smarthone OS? in Programming Talk

It's a great book; I have the 1st edition of it. All OSes are essentially the same. Learn one will give you a solid foundation to understanding how...

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shawnhcorey replied to a thread How can I write my own smarthone OS? in Programming Talk

I suggest you start by learning MINIX. MINIX was created by Andrew S. Tanenbaum to teach the concepts used in operating systems. And for those...

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shawnhcorey replied to a thread Q: Are all constants equal? in Programming Talk

Do not optimize without profiling. First, get the code to work. Second, run it thru a profiler to see where it is the slowest. Third, optimize...

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2 Weeks Ago

shawnhcorey replied to a thread how stand alone applications work in Programming Talk

That was called Dependency Hell and has been solved. Actually, finding all the dependencies on Windows is harder especially if they're third party,...

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2 Weeks Ago

shawnhcorey replied to a thread how stand alone applications work in Programming Talk

Stand-alone applications work because they have everything they need inside themselves. Applications often use external libraries full of useful...

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3 Weeks Ago

shawnhcorey replied to a thread best language to perform string operations in Programming Talk

I have written more than I care to remember in bash, sed, and awk, and I still prefer to use Perl. If it isn't on the machine, I install it. :)

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3 Weeks Ago

shawnhcorey replied to a thread best language to perform string operations in Programming Talk

You would probably want to sign on to Perl beginner mailing list.

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3 Weeks Ago

shawnhcorey replied to a thread best language to perform string operations in Programming Talk

FYI: Ruby also uses Perl's regular expression engine.

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3 Weeks Ago

shawnhcorey replied to a thread Open source in Programming Talk

You would have to use the language the project was written in. Find would where the community for the project resides on the net and make your...

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3 Weeks Ago

shawnhcorey replied to a thread best language to perform string operations in Programming Talk

Perl. Perl has the most advance regular expression engine. So advance that Python uses it too.

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4 Weeks Ago

shawnhcorey replied to a thread How Exactly do I Install C and C++? in Programming Talk

Also: sudo apt-get install manpages-dev These are the manual pages for the development environemnt. Try: man gcc

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