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I think thats just to warn vista/7 users that it doesn't effect them.

I believe the .net versions of both scala and clojure are rarely used and not a main focus.

"And people are fleeing Java in droves. " -evidence needed.

"Tablets are a much more useable form factor in classrooms, etc."

why?

Java/C# are different in that they compile to a bytecode which is like vm assembly its also not meant as a high level programming language(note that this isn't always compiled to assembly at the end as it can be interpreted, standard java for instance does both jit and interprets for best results).

"Converting programming languages really doesn't serve any purpose whatsoever" Compilers are useful. This probably won't reach production quality but that doesn't mean it couldn't with the right effort, see hip-hop or one of those x-> javascript compilers.

Try http://www.eclipsecolorthemes.org/ (note I used it with cdt and had trouble with dark color themes making some elements nearly invisible) but other then that its sorta nice

Something that legally prohibits this falls outside the definition of open source. Dual licensing with part of it not available as open source can fulfill your need although many including me somewhat dislike that and consider that against the spirit of open source. The GPL prevents people from modifying/distributing modified source without releasing the source and is highly disliked by a number of companies who would have nothing to do with it. They can still use it without distributing it like on a server without releasing changes as open source.

Doesn't happen except by all the time by primarily open source companies.

I think this is what android does, isn't it. Although android doesn't use x.

reference counting is slower* then other forms of gc. My guess why its fairly fast in c++ has a lot to do whith how much you can avoid it by allocating things on the stack(of course you can do escape anaylsis but most gc'd languages don't have explicit stack allocation of non basic types)

*with a lot of collaries

I thought the key was not managing mutable state. Sharing lots of immutable data can probably shave a lot of performance over ipc.

and opera and a few open source web browsers nobody uses.

As compared to ? Python is very popular.

It doesn't work quite the same way but krunner is also quite nice.

You could do something ala n900.

I believe smalltalk block are BlockClosure objects that can be passed around like any other parameter.

jobs? especially in the computer industry.

Not for us ex-nokia fans.

I think you are greatly understimate how great less relevant ads are.

Much less data/less identifying data gathered -> slightly less relevant ads and a huge win fore everyone. Not that this will lead to that but it would be great if it did.

I thought 2.6 was suppose to be the stable release.

Is there a similar one for linux?

Yes but some of the examples of obj-c I've seen look ridiculously wordy compared with the smalltalk equivalents (even if you ignore op overloading). (setObject: forKey:) vs (at: put:). for ex.

Am I the only one who doubts a lot of the magical usability of touch interfaces?

I was thinking he was talking about (mostly?) immutable data structures.

Better(actually faster on 1/3, smaller on a 1/3) then mono!!!/c# http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all... , mostly slower then java -server http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all... . Still impressive.

Ribbon on explorer is a bit weird but better then then win7 no menu, weird context sensitive button bar.

My impression was that Woz developed apple 1(which gave apple some funds) by himself(with jobs only encouraging/pushing) and developed a very large of the apple II(which made apple a multi million dollar company) and then not much else. which was one of the first personal computers and was transformational(helping introduce personal computers into the world including a wide variety of clones. Jobs was the team head who designed the first mac(which was transformational in its own way-one of the first gui ) personal computers). At least according to foklore.org a decent number of the brilliant people working for apple on the mac and other projects were there in a significant part because they fell in love with woz's work.

Having downloaded it I can't seem to find a trace of any pascal but plenty of nib files.

The windows ui got a bit worse(no menubar by default right)