Sunday, 2 November 2003

Ugg...

Threads in java were bad enough, but threads in C are horriable. But I don't think that I can blame it on doing threads, but I will blame it on the language itself. I am SO used to languages like Java that do all sorts of checking for you so that you don't do dumb stuff like exceed your array limits, over write memory of something else, or (AGG!!!) have things declared multiple times and it using the "wrong" one. Oie. I feel like crap doing it because I am totally hacking just to get it done. I don't think that I ever want to see this again. Oh, another thing that I am too used to is exceptions. I'd MUCH rather have an exception be thrown and possibly kill the app compared to having it just fail silently. Grrr... Maybe I just suck, but I totally do not agree with Joel about exceptions. Ah well.

I'll be posting some pictures of my halloween when I get them from my dad (note: one day I will have my own digital camera. It will be mine, oh yes my precious....). Peter showed me a pic of what Andrea looked like at his party. Cool!

I am really looking forward to this week. I seem to only have (right now) two assignments due Monday, with the rest of the week clear. Which is good because I am going to see John Mayer (I hate flash sites) on Tuesday, and see The Matrix on Thursday. I'm going to see it again with Laura (most likely, if she wants to go), so it's all good. I love seeing movies again, which is probably why I like buying them. Already I have planned to see LotR - Return of the King twice. Probably more. You never know... I'll be SO happy when I finish in like 39 days, I'll probably want to see it all the time. I think that for a Christmas gift, I am going to ask for The Fellowship extended edition... they cut out so much, and I want it all!..Bwahahahaha!!
Listening to: Portishead - It Could Be Sweet


1 comment:

  1. There will always be people hacking on low-level C code but software engineers shouldn't be those people. Newer languages like Java/C# are at the point where the cost of development is offsetting any possible performance benefits. Faster processors are making it a moot point as well.
    C/C++ will never go away, we just have to wait for all of the C++ hackers to retire so we can get some headache (pointer) free development done. ;)

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