Comments by "Toby" (@toby9999) on "Computerphile" channel.

  1. As a C and C++ programmer, memory management is always something to be considered from the get go. It's just an integral part of the development process. Never seen it as a problem.
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  2. Writing a raytracer like this one from scratch was one of our university computer science projects. A lot of fun it was.
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  3. I still use WordPad and NotePad sometimes. NotePad especially.
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  4. Exactly my thoughts. The current AI technology is being massively overly hyped.
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  5. Don't use it then. I avoid it mostly.
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  6. Java is a nightmarish hack in my opinion. I don't think I need to elaborate. I've managed to avoid Java for the most part but it hangs over me with a feeling of foreboding.
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  7. I can still remember writing 6502 code all in hex for the C64. No assembler.
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  8. I don't understand the love for them, they're insane. Never been able to wrap my head around them, and I've been involed in software development for 30 years. If I encounter one in some code, I have no idea what they're doing or how to debug them. I hate them.
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  9. I prefer cable. It's more reliable, consistent and faster.
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  10. Your criticisms of the C language are not actually language issues, they're programmer mistakes. For instance, you don't or shouldn't access memory you don't have... that's programming 101. Rust doesn't really solve these issues, it just pretends to.
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  11. Why, who made that claim? You?
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  12. So, is this why software has become so slow and bloated? Multi core multi GB systems loading and running applications slower than an older core2 cpu would a decade or two ago? Too much bloat under the hood?
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  13. I remember it. I had an A500. Well, ahead of it's time.
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  14. Depends on how you define one thing... 8bits OR is it one byte...
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  15. You're correct.
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  16. Apple didn't lead the way. PCs have had pre-emptive multitasking since the 90's. Even the Amiga home computer had it in the 80's. The Amiga had color graphics while the Mac was still monochrome. And I can remember how the Apple network would crash when any application running on one of power macs would hang. I can also remember the nightmare it was to develop software that was backward compatible on Macs. Something that was trivial on PCs. I have Windows apps that I developed in the 90's that will run on Windows 10 without modification and I have applications developed on Windows 10 that will run on Windows 7 and in some cases even on XP.
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  17. It's pretty basic stuff that any half decent programmer should get right. It bugs me when people blame such things on the language. Like blaming a car for driving the wrong way down a one-way street.
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  18. They don't look elegant to my eyes. They're a mess.
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  19. I'm impressed by anyone who can understand Git. It's a frigging nightmare.
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  20. After trying rust, I'll never want to use rust again. C++ provides everything I need already without having to re learn everything.
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  21. No one knows what being sentient means or what it is fundamentally. Same goes for conciousness.
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  22. The rust syntax is hideous in my opinion. They've switched away from a very common and well understould syntax style to something quite unintuative... a bizzare grab bag of styles borrowed from various languages... why? Just because they could? The chance to design something elegant squandered.
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  23. ​ @ifcoltransg2 Yeah, which is why I dislike python.
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  24. ​ @dynfoxx Perhaps it boils down to personal preference? I don't see anything significant in rust syntax that makes it "better". Maybe I'm just biased because I've been coding in C and C++ for decades?
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  25. Not quite, but you can think of it as a container of objects.
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  26. Swapping with SSD storage doesn't sound like a good idea anyway.
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  27.  @zxuiji  Have you ever tried assembly language programming?
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  28. ​@Cicirifu I don't even consider JS to be a real programming language in the true sense. It's more akin to a scripting hack.
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  29. Semantics.
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  30. ​ @mytech6779 That would explain why I was even more confused than normal.
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  31. ​@stefanalecu9532 I've done it in Forth, and no, it's not great.
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  32. Everything you said is true, but it's a horrible file format to generate.
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  33. ​ @FrancoisBergh  Lots of people.
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  34. What's your point?
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  35. I still use new and delete and never have a problem with it.
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  36. I can remember floppys. The thin flat ones that were actually floppy. The first computer I used only had storage on cassette tapes with a massive transfer rate of 300 bits per sec.
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  37. Yes, it's a horrendous mix of binary and text formats all mixed together in one file, all separated by absolute byte offsets. This makes it impossible to edit without dedicated software.
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  38. 'Understand' is probably the wrong term for it... I don't believe the current AI software understands anything.
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  39. My least favourite of the "real" programming languages is java.
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