... While this is true and has been observed by other people (take Stepanov, inventor of the STL), the rest is nonsense. OOP may be flawed and it certainly is no silver bullet but it makes large-scale applications much simpler because it's a great way to reduce dependencies. Of course, this is only tr...

...m however does have the advantage of having on board Guido van Rossum, the inventor of Python and an amazingly strong engineer. In terms of flexibility, the Java engine, as already mentioned, does offer the possibility of running JVM bytecode made by different languages, not just Java -- if you're ...

...tive. So this is my opinion: SQL has a pseudo-natural-language style. The inventors believed that they can create a language just like English and that database queries will be very simple. A terrible mistake. SQL is very hard to understand except in trivial cases. SQL is declarative. You can't te...

... the programming language APL. In his Turing Award lecture, Ken Iverson (inventor of APL) said this: For example, the integer function denoted by ι produces a vector of the first n integers when applied to the argument n, … That ι is the lower-case Greek letter iota. In the quote above,...

... Read the who thing here "ESB Inventor" RIDDLE SOLVED businessreviewonline.com/blog/archives/2005/08/… – Franklin Apr 23 '09 at 20:11 ...

...erally called "K&R C", after the famous book, with Dennis Ritchie, the inventor of the C language, as one of the authors. This was "the C language" from 1972-1989. The first C standard was released 1989 nationally in USA, by their national standard institute ANSI. This release is called C89 or ...

...omplete introduction to C (C90, not C99 or later versions), written by the inventor of C. However, the language has changed and good C style has developed in the last 25 years, and there are parts of the book that show its age. C: A Reference Manual (5th Edition) - Samuel P. Harbison and Guy R. St...

... ... remains exactly the same. (This trick is called "currying" after its inventor. The language Haskell is also named for Haskell Curry. File that under useless trivia.) Now just apply this transformation everywhere and we get our final version. // The dreaded Y-combinator in action! function (...

...zarre letters used for claiming and releasing semaphores, it's because the inventor was Dutch. Probeer te verlagen means to try and decrease while verhogen means to increase. (a) ... or it can be thought of as something totally distinct from a semaphore, which may be safer given their almost-alwa...

...like to recommend another good source on the topic. It's an interview with inventors of C# and Java, Anders Hejlsberg and James Gosling respectively, on the topic of Java's Checked Exception. Failure and Exceptions There are also great resources at the bottom of the page. I tend to agree with And...