Try working on a limited stack-depth platform, such as the PIC16F1516 - your tune will quickly change when you hit the stack depth with your precious function calls. Without goto on that platform you'd be royally f***ed for anything more than the simple. Tail recursion on a PIC: GOTO!
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It is a fair point (the walking away bit) however, C# => Java is a massive jump and you should not compare the syntaxes as they are different (I don't do Java either, btw; Exposure is my limit to it too for the moment). I would have said going from C++ => Java is easier, imho. But I still won't loose sight of where you're coming from. (your analogy of the car being thrown into reverse sounds quite fun actually, btw.. :P) I'm not saying the OP shouldn't walk away from this, but what I was meaning is they should not be so scorning about the languages they were being asked to use which comes back to the point of my first post.. Languages become popular, normally, because they have advantages over others, and a problem must have an appropriate language picked to solve it. I've seen some really great stuff coded in ASP(.net) (CodeProject's site for one!) but I've also seem some atrocious stuff that can be attributed solely to a bad pick of language or simply the developer being too anti other languages of the same class to recognise them as options that might be better (PHP and ASP.net being of the same class: Web languages). The same goes for PHP sites.
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As much as I can admire you for trying to compare these: go with what the client wants, it'll be good for you. PHP is able to be run on any OS which has a server written for it and more importantly, the language implementation is free (this could be, through and through, why the client wants use of the language..). MySQL is, again, able to be run on any OS (again, a good choice on their part if they want the code to be run-able on any server they decide to use). ASP.net is primarily class-based, while PHP is the JoaT here in that it has both OOP and Functional Programming models as default ways to go about things. MSSQL can be good at some things, but in my experience, it's expensive and slow in comparison to MySQL when using MySQL's InnoDB storage engine. As previous posters have said, they've each got their ups and downs, therefore neither is better. I uses PHP by preference as I can get more done faster. For an IDE (of sorts), I use PHP.net's documentation and NotePad++ (http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/) plus the editor has a built-in help mechanism to do lookups on PHP.net by a key-combination (Alt + F1). Hope you can see where I'm coming from with this as it's not a crime to use free languages and free software, but (imho) it is a crime to get stuck down to just one language pair (ASP.net/MSSQL) just because you cannot see the merits of a different language pair (PHP/MySQL) and accept when a client wants to use them ;).
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I run XP SP2, no win updates, with Window Blinds installed and the Ares theme running.... very easy on the eyes for those who use their computers in dark (ish) environments. I also run Ubuntu in dual boot on the same box, using one of the dark themes. no Vista or Seven, though if I were to get either, they'd be WB'ed and Ares'd as it's a nice theme, and does not need a really powerful graphics card.
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Why not use an Assembler such as NASM which comes with it's own linker then? :P
The worst thing about the darkness is the light at the end - DX-MON
Try Blenders: http://www.blender.org/ I've been using it tones over the last month and I can say 2 things: 1) it's really fast, and 2) it produces fabulous results, esp in hair-generation mode. You might just like it as an un-bloated particle system.
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Access isn't portable though, it's windows only and this guy wants his software to be able to run on all platforms.
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If you're so concerned with having the application portable, write your own database format for the application, that way you can keep the dependencies to a minimum and have full control as to how the data is stored. (just my 2cents)
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Good idea with the [Kick] button idea, to also have a positive version to make it even stevens! :) How about you start with say 5 positives or 5 kicks and then something happens, and if you get say 5 positives the threshold increases? (Just as an idea ;p)
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I thought it was an ape! :laugh: ;)
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I think you mean to say for USING : 3)Odd my website looks nicest in IE (standards are defined by market share, not idealists) That the standard produced by the W3C are not the ones you realy work to, I work to the W3C ones and my sites look the same on all the different browsers. I think you seriously need to redo either the style sheeting on your site or create two stylesheets, one that will look good in IE, and one in FireFox/Netscape, I can provide some javascript to connect the two styles into your pages and flip between them depending on the browser. -- modified at 7:14 Saturday 28th October, 2006