Altreus

False. print is a language construct

http://uk1.php.net/manual/en/function.print.php

This site and I share a very strong link.

Apparently neither of us consider PHP to be programming.

Author here! I've created a page with a button so you can see how it functions: http://altreus.github.io/colourblind/index.html

HTH HAND

I totally had an awesome picture to link to here to prove my point but I can't find it.

Suffice to say that Apple pricing their bog-standard SATA hard disks at 39 cents a gigabyte (a high market price being 19 cents), and a similar attitude to the rest of their perfectly average hardware, explains the "overpriced toy" reaction to their products.

It's as though there's a sort of threshold of computer-ness, above which the general public become blithering idiots. Apple's removal of as many controls as possible make these items friendlier; but when they have been around as long as washing machines and toasters, I bet we'll find that this article applies to them as well.

Why use the command line at all when you can use a GUI?

Understanding how your system works is a different level from choosing the tools in the first place.

Ah, the only viable use for an iPad.

Except of course you can't write software for the iPad without spending money so screw it.

The future is here! Two USians and a European working successfully on a 2-day hackathon using such technology that blurs the boundary between server and client ... what more could we ask for!

Except robots

Would you rather she golfed it? ;)

I disagree. The post seems to me like it is aimed at learning new things, not an in-depth investigation on how the things you're already doing work in the background.

The things in the article are explained on their own level, and then a level below it, i.e. the file descriptors. How the file descriptors work, where they're stored, things like that, are well out of the scope of the article.

IMO.

Thanks for the sophisticated and helpful response. I'll obviously implement many of the suggestions you made to improve my article writing.