Thanks for the suggestion. I've done this and am hoping that they don't break again.

Quote: Unsurprisingly, JavaScript is most popular. I think this would be better phrased as "Unsurprisingly, JavaScript is most widely used. Seems more accurate. We don't really know what developers think about a language, which would reflect it's popularity. Hence, usage != popularity necessarily. #SupportHeForShe Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun

I don't know Swift, but my guess would be something like: if let myFavoriteMovie = myDatingProfile.FavoriteMovie { print(myFavoriteMovie) } else { print("\(myDatingProfile.Name) does not have a favorite movie") } "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

@Chris-C-B Chris C-B wrote: Stealing it wasn't so bad - after all, the very best of folks have stolen stuff from time to time, Please leave your door unlocked, and your credit cards in plain sight, and let me know when you are not home, so I can improve myself :wtf: Chris C-B wrote: forget Anubis, he was Greekified The use of the commonly used spelling of today should not distract an informed reader from the clear meaning of my statement in the context of the millenia of pre-Ptolemaic Egyptian religion where Anubis was known as "a God who swallows millions." The "casting" of the golden wolf of Africa (mistakenly identified as a 'jackal') [^], a feared scavenger of the buried dead, as Anubis, divine protector of the dead, is a very interesting example of what I call "paradoxical juxtaposition of antipodes" in myth. «Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot

That really is the best explanation of the proliferation of programming languages.

Funny. In order to work, Rush and Swift have to do that "memory unsafe" stuff for us. :rolleyes: #SupportHeForShe Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun

Apple and Hollywood! I'm hitting all the marketing-moron bases, here! I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Looks like a goto in a fancy dress.

I couldn't agree more. Companies I have worked with have had to fight several patent lawsuits and in every case we were the plaintiff being sued to invalidate patents we owned and we settled just to cut the cost of the litigation. On principles alone we should have won every one of those suits but they didn't want to spend the money. My point is, there should not have been any money spent in the first place because those secondary patents were already covered by ours. The others should never have been granted in the first place. I get the feeling the patent office only hires people from the bottom twenty percent of their respective graduating classes. "They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"

It sometimes happens with other languages as well. Not sure how to fix it though.

I hadn't seen the Manning book. I am checking that one out and it does look good. Thanks for chiming in with all the recommendations. ajhampson wrote: It does change so very quickly that I wonder if books are still the answer I do agree with that. It's amazing how fast the tech changes and the book becomes obsolete.

If you want to see some very readble, but nasty code, you should try Cobol or better yet, SNOBOL. CQ de W5ALT Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software

Xamarin results in native code on each OS, though implemented differently on the device than if writing in Java or Swift. For goodness sakes, Xamarin uses XCode on a Mac when it compiles! Hybrid mobile apps are those that have a host shell on the mobile device, but run mobile-friendly web apps. Part native, part web - hence, hybrid. Xamarin at least uses the native UI controls. From what I have seen, a well-written Xamarin Forms app and a java on Android or Swift on iOS app would not perform with a difference a user would notice. And poorly-written apps in any language would run poorly.

If it ships, starts praying :laugh: Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly