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Moin, short question: is there any language combining the syntax, flexibility and great programming experience of Python with static typing? Is there a project to add static typing to Python? Thank you, -- greetz tom

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Hi, I previously asked for suggestions on teaching testing in C++. Based on some of the replies I received I decided that best way to proceed would be to teach the students how they might write their own unit test framework, and then in a lab session see if I can get them to write their own. To give them an example I've created the...

I have developed a database for my CD collections. I am trying to develop serial number of each CD which will populate based on data entered in a form called frmCDDetails. This form is based on a table called tblCDDetails which combines data from various tables. Table 1 tblMusicCategory Field 1: MusicCategoryID - Auto Number (Primary)...

One thing I've always kind of wondered is what is the average age of a Python programmer?? What age groups use Python?? Something to think about....

Dear all, Their was a huge rore about MySQL recently for something in java functions now theirs one more http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/News-5.0.x.html Does this concern anyone. What I think is PostgreSQL would have less USP's (Uniqe Selling Points

I'm on a team building some class libraries to be used by many other projects. Some members of our team insist that "All public methods should be virtual" just in case "anything needs to be changed". This is very much against my instincts. Can anyone offer some solid design guidelines for me? Thanks in advance....

Well, seeing as we have a Movie Thread, I thought we could have a similar video game thread. So post the game you're addicted to currently, your favorite game of all time, a review of a new game you've played and want to praise/destroy, or anything having to do with video games. I'll kick it off: Metal Gear Solid 4 is what I'm currently...

I've read the docs on this, but one thing was left unclear. It seems as though a Module does not have to be fully qualified. Is this the case? I have source that apparently shows this. Are modules left-over from VB6, and not much used anymore? It seems that it is better to require Imports or use fully qualified names for functions in...

Howdy, I was reflecting recently on malloc. Obviously, for tiny allocations like 20 bytes to strcpy a filename or something, there's no point putting in a check on the return value of malloc. OTOH, if you're allocating a gigabyte for a large array, this might fail, so you should definitely check for a NULL return.

I'm looking for a freeware c99 compiler for windows. I had intended to use MS's Visual C++ Express and use its C capability. In the past with my MS products, I've simply needed to make .c the filetype to invoke the C compiler. Here's a link http://www.microsoft.com/express/download/#webInstall The download is 2.6 megs, which is near a...

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I am just trying to decide whether to split my code and uses code behind. I did it with one of my pages and found it was quite a bit of trouble. I know that most people (and books and articles) like it because you can split the code from the design. That is logical. But if you are the only one working on the code, it seem a little...

Hi All, Here is a small Code, int main(void) { char *p=(char *) malloc(100); strcpy(p,"Test1234567890"); p=p+10; free(p);

In a thread about wrapping .Net applications using Thinstall and Xenocode, it was pointed out that there may be better programming languages/IDEs to use for the purpose of creating standalone, single executable apps. My goal is to create desktop applications for use on Windows XP+ OSs that are distributed as single executables that do not...

how come m$Office isn't written in .net? how come Open Office isn't written in j2ee? how come dbms systems aren't written in either? how come browsers aren't written in either? how come RealPlayer, MediaPlayer and all applications that need speed are written in c++ ? (except for

Whether we can upload the projects (in .zip format) in these newsgroups? I am asking this because earlier there are more than 50 posts (in one thread) about this query and they are contradicting with each other (You can find that post by name date10/22/2003 Time 7:22PM) I want to get the answer from Microsoft. Therefore, please answer this...

(The "C++ Grammer" thread in comp.lang.c++.moderated prompted this post). It would be more than a little bit nice if C++ was much "cleaner" (less complex) so that it wasn't a major world wide untaking to create a toolchain for it. Way back when, there used to be something called "Small C". I wonder if the creator(s) of that would want to...

Hello, Is there a way in C to get information at runtime if a processor is 32 or 64 bit? Cheers, Broeisi

I started programming with c. Lot of projects are being done in C++. We have to move in THE C++. I read around 3 - 4 books (including Faqs, stroustrup) on c++. What i found in most of the book is that they criticize c language and c programmer. And they silently run away from good feature of C. They have sentence like , "you have to unlearn c...

Hi I have to write a multi-threaded program. I decided to take an OO approach to it. I had the idea to wrap up all of the thread functions in a mix-in class called Threadable. Then when an object should run in its own thread, it should implement this mix-in class. Does this sound like plausible design decision? I'm surprised that C++...

This has to do with class variables and instances variables. Given the following: <code> class _class: var = 0 #rest of the class

Apologies if my cross posting has offended anyone.... For a pure hobbyist C/C++ programmer, who wants to develop applications to run on Windows, what would be a better choice to install: Visual C++ Express 2005 Edition or lcc-win32? Does anyone have any opinion to share? Also, is there a C++ compiler akin to lcc-win32? Thanks,

Hi. In the snippet of code below, I'm trying to understand why when the struct dirent ** namelist is declared with "file" scope, I don't have a problem freeing the allocated memory. But when the struct is declared in main (block scope) it will segfault when passing namelist to freeFileNames().

No comments I'm afraid until after the judging :) Split from Default Avatar for thescripts Competition thread Keep all coments here please