You Learn Something New Every Day
Today I learnt that Java is very broken for certain tasks. There are no unsigned atomic types.
That’s right, this means if you want to write, say, a program to mangle certain byte-streams as unsigned values (like a packet overlay or anything enough suitably low-level which interfaces with the “real world”), it becomes very complex as you have to use non-elegant and strange hacks – e.g. using a bigger type to represent a smaller type, like 16 bits to represent 8 bits and then doing a lot of bit twiddling to get the numbers right.
Well, it’s always good to learn new things. I heard Python is nice, we’ll see.
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Python is nice!
By Jaska on 07.28.08 6:54
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By slinky on 07.29.08 21:02
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