[neirty]

**** Java. Use a real language.



C++ is much, much, bigger from what I understand. At least in the physics part of the ecology.

Java has a huge foothold on Wall Street. Both C++ and Java (not desktop apps, but the risk systems, backend systems) dominate there.

[Ervntewc]

Last figure I saw said half a billion for each of these.

[Inettypofonee]

how much does this thing cost?

Asher has it right. I might add that this is for the base model, without the mission modules. The "economic benefit" from these is the extremely low personnel costs, which absorb a plurality of the budget.

[mireOpekrhype]

You went to "Transformers 2," thus the above post and everything else you say can be summarily disregarded

I think I may hate you.

[mashabox]

Please tell me you didn't validate the hollywood summer **** fest phenomenon by going to see that POS? At least tell me you thought it was a POS...

I saw it on the IMAX at Udvar-Hazy. The one that(in the film) is located in Virginia but the outside resembles an aircraft boneyard in the Southwest.

[AgJ5mNXM]

Lonestar likes all special effects heavy, plotless childrens' movies like Star Wars...

I enjoy movies for what they are. Same with the other guys who plopped down three quarters of a billion dollars to see it this summer.

[Usesdiums]

I saw it on the IMAX at Udvar-Hazy.

I saw Dark Knight there. Definitely the best theater in the area for summer blockbusters.

[Smabeabumjess]

BlackCat is describing the defining property of functional languages, i.e. that functions are first-class objects. This means you can generate new functions at runtime, assign them to variables, and pass them into functions as arguments.

e.g. you could have a function map(func,list) that would behave as such:
map(lambda x: x+1, [0, 3, 17]) would return [1, 4, 18]

[indentKew]

don't know algol.
i realize how term is used to define the increment size, depending on i but why would would you need to pass i?

[attackDoold]

It appears to have a football pitch on it but where are the guns?

[FelixQY]

There's a RAM located aft for that. Not much in the way of air defense beyond that, but it is not meant to operate by itself in a hostile air environment(I know, I know, famous last words...).

They're gonna freakin' ram incoming missles? Was this thing designed by the Confederate Navy?

Can't they detail Shore Patrol to protect it when in port?

[Pharmaciest2007]

It's probably nice to have the ability to make such turns when there are torpedoes, but how does she deal with "exocet"'s ? (replace exocet with newest such thingy).

It looks stealthy to me.

so why the need for speed? To get to whereever it's needed ASAP?

[Vodonaeva]

You would be surprised how steathy those things can be regardless of the shape. A DDG looks no bigger than a small fishing ship on radar, this things profile is much smaller. Since it is operating in the litorals looking no different than the hundred other small fishing/utility vessels all over the place is stealth.

[Liskaspexia]

What does all this have to do with pointers?

[intendepods]

don't know algol.

Oh. He was Vice President under Clinton. Later he went on to win an Oscar for a documentary he made, and he now makes occasional guest appearances on South Park.