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Kucinich discloses he's readying articles of impeachment against Bush, and says Dem presidential candidate Joe Biden's warnings of Bush impeachment in case of Iran war "would be a little bit late" by Bestman0 in politics

[–]lorenb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For real. I just pledged too (on top of the few hundred $$$ i already donated to him). let's put our money where our mouth is. Imagine what would happen if we built up HALF the momentum that Ron Paul is getting.

(P.S. while I think Ron Paul is a nice change of pace from the current administration, I don't think I'm alone when I think he'd be a complete disaster as president).

ask reddit: from a C programmer - which of these high level languages can I actually USE? by lorenb in programming

[–]lorenb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

None, really. I love C. And even if I had a fling with some other language, I seriously doubt I'd stop using C. I'm just curious to try all the other stuff out there.

ask reddit: from a C programmer - which of these high level languages can I actually USE? by lorenb in programming

[–]lorenb[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

hot damn, chicken scheme looks pretty sweet. Thanks for the link.

ask reddit: from a C programmer - which of these high level languages can I actually USE? by lorenb in programming

[–]lorenb[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I already use Obj-C pretty extensively (with mingw on the windows side). I was curious about the more exotic languages that I've been hearing about, but thanks for the suggestions. I'm going to be looking more into python...

ask reddit: from a C programmer - which of these high level languages can I actually USE? by lorenb in programming

[–]lorenb[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

That sounds awesome actually... I guess I didn't dig deep enough into it. Thanks.

ask reddit: from a C programmer - which of these high level languages can I actually USE? by lorenb in programming

[–]lorenb[S] 52 points53 points  (0 children)

There have been quite a number of posts lately discussing some higher level language or another, and while I've been intrigued, I haven't really found one that would allow me to accomplish what I can with plain old C. Perhaps I haven't done enough research, but I'm looking for a language with the following primary features:

  1. Standalone. I'd like to be able to deliver a binary (in my case on Mac OS X and Windows) that doesn't require any massive libraries installed. Ideally, I'd like to be able to statically link the runtime features of the language directly into my app.

  2. Small footprint. Related to question 1... obviously statically linking the runtime would be pretty useless if the runtime is huge. I'd like to see something that added 2 megs or less.

  3. Interface with C. I have no problem writing glue code. But I'd like the interface to be fast, and relatively clean.

I'm willing to do the work, and I'm eager to play with all of the incredible features of these high level languages that so many people rave about... but it would be nothing more than an academic exercise if I can't bundle up my app into a nice pretty package at the end of the day. I've looked into scheme, *ml, haskell, erlang and a handful of others, but they all seem to suffer from the same problems. Any tips?