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Academic researchers have published a study investigating the effect of programming languages on software quality, concluding the issue is hard to quantify but also identifying significant findings, such as functional languages having an edge over procedural/object-oriented languages. "Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Academic researchers
I stopped there. 
[edit]OK, so I took a peek. The conclusion -- we can't conclude anything. There you go, academic research at its finest!  [/edit]
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Well, the failure of premature conclusiveness is a part of science, usually the hind-end.
Does it mean anything that F# is not among the languages considered ?
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it. A few hundred years later another traveler despairing as myself, may mourn the disappearance of what I may have seen, but failed to see.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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Vibrating mechanical switches that can be cascaded to perform complex computational operations could take computing significantly further than today's technologies. "She's giving me excitations"
You knew I had to use something from that song, didn't you?
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I was thinking along the lines of frequencies like 10GHz.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Vibrating mechanical switches
Take THAT, quantum computing! And it works at room temperatures! Now where did I put that box of old relays I had when I was 15?
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Despite a reputation for fast change some technology choices have stayed remarkably static over the past few decades. In this article we look at the C programming language which is over 40 years old but still remains a core piece of AHL’s and the world’s technology stack. If it works, why add one to it? (or 16Hz)
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Metals/Plastics/Aliminium... etc are ways cheaper and more amenable than wood, in my honest personal opinion. However, we still use wood - which is an older material compared to the 3 ones I mentioned above.
Same goes for C... 
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Alaa Ben Fatma wrote: Metals/Plastics/Aliminium... etc are ways cheaper and more amenable than wood
As usual, it depends on the intended purpose. There are some uses for which wood is still the best material.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Why the surprise about its longevity?
In a world where the vast majority of languages sit somewhere along a scale that runs from "a bit lousy, really" to "completely and utterly lousy", C still stands out as one of those rare gems that can be filed under "not lousy in the slightest".
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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One AI has the highest IQ of them all, but it's still low by human standards. So next time, get a six-year-old to be your assistant
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How is 47.28 "more than double" 23.9? In an article about IQ no less.
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gardnerp wrote: How is 47.28 "more than double" 23.9? In an article about IQ no less.<
bool truthyness = ( Math.Floor(47.28) > (2* Math.Floor(23.9));
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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They should had included IBM's Watson. IBM has gone all in with AI.
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Microsoft's first product showed the way to reshape the company's future. Otherwise it would be necessary to invent the company?
Voltaire wouldn't like it, anyway (he probably also didn't like me abusing his quote)
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Dnsmasq provides functionality for serving DNS, DHCP, router advertisements and network boot. We discovered seven distinct issues over the course of our regular internal security assessments.
There are an estimated 750 million wifi routers on the planet and many of them are using dnsmasq. There is a very high probability that YOU reading this right now have dnsmasq installed on your wifi router or other devices in your home. Android devices and most major Linux distributions are also effected.
According to Shodan.io there are 1,089,035 public facing devices running dnsmasq[^].
Update your devices.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Randor wrote: Android ... Update your devices.
Yeah, good luck with that! 
My company phone was new in April. It should finally be getting the July "BroadPwn" patch some time this week. And so long as nothing goes wrong, it should be upgrading from v6.0.1 to v7.x some time this month - only two months after v8 was released.
Android phone updates are sloooooooow.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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This post is the first of a series of blog posts focused on the Roslyn codebase. When a Daddy codebase really likes a Mommy codebase...
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The sci-fi trope might now be put to rest after scientists find the suggestion that reality is computer generated is in principle impossible, writes Andrew Masterson. So, life's not but a walking shadow?
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Ya think?!??
Sorta obvious, but whatevah
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well, since you can`t use computer in WOW or DND, those world must be real and not computer generated , right?
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My mind!
it is blown up!
TTFN - Kent
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Odd that they only consider our technology capability.
It's rather ignorant to assume humans would simulate human life.
If this were a simulation, it's likely done by creatures studying something with better technology.
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Never seen The Sims, eh?
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Actually, they're considering fundamental mathematical principles of computability as applied to particle physics and quantum states - nothing to do with our technology.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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