> "For the sake of security and reliability, the industry should declare those languages as deprecated," Russinovich said.
"For the sake of security and reliability, the industry should declare Microsoft as deprecated," I said.
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> Most of those "investing" are complicit and fully on board with the scam.
Given that quiff-boy often reveals how ill-informed and dim-witted he is, could it be that in fact he's the one being scammed?
OTOH he has a track record of successful scam himself, so I think probably not.
> Health and Safety at Work Act applies to all organisations above a certain level of employees.
Again, do you really belive that would prevent an actual prosecution?
A breach of the H&S regulations could for example be used as supporting evidence, even if the H&S legislation weren't applicable in a particular case. Servo-assisted prosecuting...
> The degree to which one must comply is proportionate to the risk of harm.
Fallacious, I'm afraid. Leaving aside any custodial sentences that might yet be built in, one incident would bankrupt our small sports club. From our point of view this is a bulldozer to swat a gnat.
> If these small hobby sites are so useful to their members then their members won't mind paying a nominal fee to use them and that fee could be used to pay for compliance.
It wouldn't be a small fee, that is why it won't work. The only way to comply with this legislation (which is itself both malicious, and an unnecessary duplication of existing protections - albeit regualtions which the government has decided it's not worth enforcing) is to charge a very substantial amount or shut the site down.
> Algol 68 was so damm complex it used what looks like 2 level BNF, which I think was too much for anyone but hard-core theoretical language specialists.
No, the language definition uses level 2 BNF, the language itself doesn't (my MSc was in the use of 2-level grammars). Algol-68 was a great step forward in exposing some of the abstract concepts underlying progamming, but most people were put off by (little-founded) horror stories about its complexity.
> I think it also ... didn't flag type mismatches and tried to do something "Sensible" when they happened.
"Sensible" being the operative (pun intended) word. Converting integer numbers to floating-point numbers being an example, and one we all use in everyday life. Apart from a few instance like that, it has a strong type system.
As for Pascal, it's something I think Wirth should have been embarrassed about. Just my opinion, but to me it looked like a dead-end that took another decade or more to become a viable language for non-trivial projects.
> Director from foreign owner asserts that two computer systems are "fully integrated".....and is shocked to see evidence that this assertion is completely false.
No.
Director from foreign owner asserts that two computer systems are "fully integrated".....and refuses to see evidence that this assertion is completely false.