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http://www.scintilla.org/SWPortability.html
He wrote his text editor component in C~, then compiled it down to C++, Java and C#. Kind of interesting - I actually used SinkWorld in a product once.
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Right. Who would ever want to be able to write libraries that can run on any platform?
I'm not saying there isn't a need, but I'm interested in knowing of another need. Hasn't this been done in C already? C pretty much runs anywhere, after all. What exactly does this bring to the table? Sorry that people thought I was being negative (as per all the downvotes - you people really aught to comment), I'm just curious as to why other languages don't fill this gap.
To your question - in my case I had a server returning XML/JSON output and on the client side I needed to parse the output and convert it into an object model, collect changes and ship the. Back to the server. That was a lot of boiler-plate code we ended up repeating in java, C#, javascript, and C++. We used C++ version in lieu of Objective C and it was a pain with memory management mismatch.
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I'd say it's more like 'ci' (sounds closer to 'ty') in Italian 'ciao' and less like 'ch' in 'change'.
In American English (and perhaps other dialects), Italian 'ciao' is an allophone with English 'chow'. (Really two allophones, 'ch' and 'ow'). Most Americans won't be able to hear a difference.
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What's wrong with GPLv3? I thought the only thing that changed from v2 was preventing tivotization?
I think he means commercial use in closed-source projects. So it's not v2 vs v3, but GPL vs Apache or MIT.
[1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibl...
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Cee acute? Doesn't strike me as that horrible.
...unless you have no idea what "acute" means or you've never seen it in your life, because you haven't been exposed to French or English musical notation before (which applies for, I'd bet, over 80% of programmers worldwide :) )
Time to start working on Č I guess.
My first thought on seeing this name was that I ought to rename my project "Ç".
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Who's "we"? Your OS only supports 7-bit ASCII or what? https://www.google.com/search?q=%C4%86%20programming%20langu...
Yeah, but most people in the US will be too lazy to type that character when writing about it. Also, look at the author's own examples. They already have to resort to calling it "ci" in code and on the command line (and in URLs).
Five decades of having everything built around their convenience does that
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Almost all other languages have ASCII names. How do you think South Koreans, Japanese, Chinese, etc refer to them? They figured it out, just like you would, if you wanted to.
The name of something makes a big difference in the USA though. If it sounds ridiculous or has a non-obvious pronunciation, people won't take it seriously. Rationalize all you want...the issue makes it a non-starter for many people.