Archive for May, 2007
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
Libraries, Frameworks, Components… OH MY!
I can remember a time when developing an application meant writing everything from the ground up. I had my programming language, and if the core functions of that language couldn’t accomplish some task, then I had to write it myself. All of my developer friends and I had our own little “bag of tricks”… the [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Programming by Scott Hackett
Thursday, May 24th, 2007
Top Ten Reasons NOT to use SlickEdit
An odd title to a post on the SlickEdit blog I know. But in reality, it is just a light-hearted and hopefully creative way that we have been advertising SlickEdit this year. We wanted to appeal to a developer’s sense of humor, and to also get across that we understand coding pain points and frustrations developers have [...]
7 Comments » - Posted in SlickEdit Products by Jeffrey
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007
The only loop, the infinite loop
The next revision of the Slick-C language is introducing a new infinite loop statement. It is a concept borrowed from Modula and Wirth’s Oberon, and probably several other languages. 123 loop { // statements } The idea is that you only really need one loop statement, because it’s just a matter [...]
