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    The Linux Thread

    in General Discussion

    I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

     

    Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

     

    There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

    • Brohoof 3

    The Fires of a Brony's Ambition

    in Sugarcube Corner

    If you look at the description of the video, he says it was a controlled brush fire used to burn dead tree limbs and stuff, and he was just using it as a dramatic background.... Seems believable too - the trees do not appear dense enough to be a forest or woodland.

     

    Added after thread posted.

    Is it easier to be a boy or a girl?

    in General Discussion

    Women probably.

    Feminists are the worst of the worst.

    They want "equal" and all that but I don't see them fighting for any equality in divorces or equality in consequences. They don't seem to want to work as hard as men or have the most dangerous jobs either.

    Then when a guy stand up for himself, bam sexist women-hating monster.

    Programming thread.

    in General Discussion

    I probably shouldn't post this, because these programming language discussions get somewhat hairy sometimes, but I'm diving in anyway. So, here goes.

     

     

     

     

     

    Javascript, Python, and Ruby can be used to write scripts, but they are not scripting languages. (You can also write scripts in Java, but Java is also not a scripting language.)

     

    Javascript is a serious server-side programming language.

     

    Python is a serious server-side programming language with heavy usage in scientific computing. It still powers one of the largest sites on the web. It has also seen some serious usage in other industries as well.

     

    Ruby is a serious server-side programming language. It has seen a variety of interesting uses.

     

    I'm barely even scratching the surface of these languages with this. Really, if Javascript, Ruby, and Python are scripting languages, then so is every other programming language. Just because a language provides you with the ability to run shell commands does not mean that the language is a scripting language.

     

    Remember, a scripting language is a programming language that relies nearly exclusively on external programs to manipulate data. A scripting language would be something more into the line of Bash shell scripting, where you manipulate other programs using your own program.

     

     

     

    This is not necessarily true. Java and Javascript are indeed commonly confused, but they are not 100% completely different things. They are both turing-complete programming languages with C-style syntax that run in a vm. Programs written in both languages are able to take advantage of a vm to achieve a high degree of os independence (V8 for javascript and the JVM for Java).

     

    Another thing both languages have in common is that they both have strong built-in networking libraries (assuming that you are using node.js with javascript). This means that you could use either Java or Javascript to write a performant game server, for example.

     

    Of course, there are also many differences. Java is statically compiled while Javascript is dynamically compiled. Javascript has first-class functions and closures, while Java does not. Javascript uses a prototype-based object-orientation model, while Java uses a class-based system. And so on, so forth.

     

    At the end of the day though, all programming languages that inherit the C-style syntax actually do feel somewhat similar to program in after you have used them for a while. The language constructs - loops, conditionals, and function declarations - are all quite similar between them. The only truly strange programming languages are the functional languages - Haskell, Erlang, Lisp, etc. These tend to be a different matter entirely.

     

    Scripting language =/= can only write scripts

    A scripting language is a programming language that supports writing of scripts

    Programming thread.

    in General Discussion

    Both are programming languages,

    I can program in both too, but I prefer Javascript since it has simpler commands and is faster to program in imo.

    If I was going to program anything big I'd use Java, but alas I am a economics major and have no need to over complicate things.

    Besides me gusta website design and such. ~

     

    Javascript is a scripting language.

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