OT: One-color Lava Lamp - Page 3

atari_eric · #21 March 30th, 2005, 02:17 AM

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geoschmo said:
I just started a C++ class. Had my first class Monday. Yay me.

So, when are you going to re-write the PBW server?

(not that it needs it, or anything: just that you might be tempted to re-do it in something you inherently understand and have fresh in your mind...)

NullAshton · #22 March 30th, 2005, 09:39 AM

Pointers are simple, they simply point to something.

Ragnarok · #23 March 30th, 2005, 03:14 PM

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atari_eric said:
So, when are you going to re-write the PBW server?

that will commence sometime in the near future I imagine. I believe the main thing holding things right now is waiting for SEV to be released so we can build PBW2 around SEV & SEIV.

Link to the PBW2 Dev site. No posts have been made in along time and even when they were made there weren't many of them.

geoschmo · #24 March 30th, 2005, 04:09 PM

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atari_eric said:
So, when are you going to re-write the PBW server?

Well, I just had my second class today. We are up to adding constants and prompting users for inputs. So it might be a while.

Strategia_In_Ultima · #25 March 30th, 2005, 04:17 PM

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Will said:
Turing Machine is a theoretical computer. As far as I know, an actual Turing Machine does not exist, only machines that are equivalent to it (in the mathematical sense). I guess it would be possible to build one, but it would be highly inefficient. It's called a Turing Machine after Alan Turing, who thought it up while doing cryptography work for Britain in WWII.

Neal Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon" points this out as well. I'm not saying that what it says is entirely true (though I believe the basics behind the Turing machine as explained in Cryptonomicon are), but it is still a good - no, make that excellent read.

but as for your 1-color lavalamp NA, that's really relaxing.

Slynky · #26 March 30th, 2005, 06:47 PM

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Imperator Fyron said:
Compared to languages like COBOL, FORTRAN, LISP, etc., C++ is quite easy to work with. A huge number of modern languages (Java, Python, C#, PHP, Delphi, etc.) are based off of C++, so you get the advantage of getting a head start on them as well...

I think I got ruined along the way somewhere. Started in Fortran IV, then Cobol, CICs Command level (MF stuff), JCL (and all that crap). Then began dabling in Basic on a Honeywell and then on an IBM PC. That evolved to Borland's Pascal and Clipper. Then, I got tired of languages and started messing with graphics. Now, all the object-oriented stuff confuses me. You know, old dog, new tricks (yada, yada, yada).