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Are Language Comparisons Meaningful?
Dr Bjarne Stroustrup in his book D&E says
Several reviewers asked me to compare C++ to other languages. This I have decided against doing. Thereby, I have reaffirmed a long-standing and ...
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What are the main advantages and disadvantages of LL and LR parsing?
When building a parser to a programming language what I earn and what I lost choosing one or the other?
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Comparison with an outsourced dev center
We are part of a software company which was just acquired by a larger one. This company has a large development center in India; we are based in Europe.
We don't yet know what will happen with our ...
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Comparing Rails 3 to Apache CXF
Has anyone here used both Apache CXF and Ruby on Rails 3 to develop RESTful web services before? I'm interested to hear your thoughts on the pros and cons of both. Personally, I'm pretty familiar with ...
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A measure of development speed
I've seen a lot of tests measuring execution speed of programming languages, but I've never found tests measuring development speed.
I've heard development speed is increased when working with ...
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Dynamically vs Statically typed languages studies
Do there exist studies done on the effectiveness of statically vs dynamically typed languages?
In particular:
Measurements of programmer productivity
Defect Rate
Also including the effects of ...
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Teaching a QA person to program
I have a friend who has been doing QA for about a year and wants to further their career. I have always leaned to C using gcc and makefiles as you have to do everything yourself. I have also read ...
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Commented short fancy code vs. uncommented longer easy-to-understand code - which is preferred?
Sometimes an algorithm can be written in two ways:
The short, fancy way; or
The longer, easy-to-understand way.
For example, here is a longer, easier way of copying a string source to dest in C:
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What features in Eclipse is not available in Visual Studio? [closed]
I have done much development in Java using Eclipse, and now I have started to use Visual Studio for .NET development. So far I find the IDEs to be able to do the same things, but just different.
What ...
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What are the biggest differences between F# and Scala?
F# and Scala are both functional programming langugages that don't force the developer to only use immutable datatypes. They both have support for objects, can use libraries written in other languages ...
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Is Java to Linux what .NET is to Windows?
Is Java becoming the de facto standard from Linux application development in the same way .NET is the standard for Windows application development? If not why not?
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What security practices should you be aware of when writing software?
What different types of security do there exist? Why and when should they be implemented?
Example: SQL Injection Prevention
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Are there tools to determine code similarity? [closed]
I'm not talking about a diff tool. I'm really looking to see if a project contains code that may have been "refactored" from another project. It would be likely that function names, variable names ...
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What's the difference between a “developer” and a “programmer”? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the key differences between software engineers and programmers?
What is the difference between software engineer and software developer?
What's the difference ...
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Most useful features of VIM that aren't standard in a IDE [closed]
I'm considering whether I should start using VIM again instead of an IDE. What are the most useful features of VIM that aren't standard in an IDE?
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When can you call yourself good at language X?
This goes back to a conversation I've had with my girlfriend. I tried to tell her that I simply don't feel adequate enough in my programming language (C++) to call myself good. She then asked me, ...
