I remember reading about the Boo language and IronPython some years ago. Do you still use IronPython?
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# Start the event loop with the main coroutine
event_loop(main())Time for Greenspun's eleventh rule: ;)
Replace Java with star and that statement still holds true (for some people).
Hence the statement that you can write FORTRAN in any language.
https://blog.codinghorror.com/you-can-write-fortran-in-any-l...
60s grandgeezer here. try waiting a week or two, to find out that your punched card batch job didn't even compile, let alone run, because of a single character typo you made. back to square zero.
kids these days ...
HSQLDB:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSQLDB
H2:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/H2_(database)
PointBase:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PointBase
I have briefly used either one of the first two, I think it was HSQLDB, with Java, years ago.
PointBase was created by Bruce Scott, a co-founder of Oracle, and a few others, including an architect of Sybase. This was in the early days of Java.
All three still seem to exist, according to the links above.
The GoF book (the design patterns book) says in a page right near the start, "Prefer composition over inheritance", in the middle of an otherwise blank page, presumably to emphasize the importance of that advice.
As others have replied, composition is one technique you can use in OOP, not something that is the opposite of OOP.
You can also use composition in non-OOP procedural languages like C, by having a struct within a struct.
https://www.google.com/search?q=can+you+have+nested+structs+...
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/denounce
In India, chili chicken (probably spelled chilli chicken) is an Indianised-Chinese dry starter or appetizer kind of dish, of small pieces of chicken stir-fried with a tangy dry coating / sauce that includes ginger, garlic and red chillies. You can get vegetarian versions too, like paneer chilli. That coating / sauce is really good. It has tiny solid bits and pieces of ginger and garlic which adds to the taste.
You get it in (Indian) Chinese or multi-cuisine restaurants.
I thought / have observed that the spelling "chili" (single letter l) was used for the US / Mexican dish called "chili con carne", and the spelling "chilly/chillies" was used for the hot pepper that came from the Americas and spread to much of the world.
Edit: Wikipedia says both spellings are used for the hot pepper:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chili_pepper
Edit 2: See the Spelling and usage section.
It does not mention the y ending, but I have seen it in India.
That's a little surprising, considering that the classic first book about C, K&R was first published in 1978 and again in 1988, the first and second edition, respectively.
One of the editions, maybe the first, had a simple hash table implementation, that just summed up the ASCII values of the characters in the given string, modulo some value, and used that as the key for the string being hashed.
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(from it).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13264041
It's about the IBM PC Jr., which I had, and on which I wrote a lot of hobbyist code.
Mostly in the built-in BASIC, but some in Logo too (which I did not mention in the post). Logo came with the Jr. It was fun to program in.
The post also links to Mike Brutman's PC Jr. page, a retrocomputing site.
I has emailed with him about our common interest in the Jr.
can is the operative word, not is. Thinking of that other word, the m-word, that sounds like nomad. ;)
/jk
Y. Also:
s/ush/esume
I read it some years ago, so don't remember for sure about the dogma bit, but it likely does not have much of that.