PanArab

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[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yup. It is all about paying the price, Microsoft could technically get Windows certified as UNIX. IBM did just that with its mainframe OS. Here's a list of certified UNIX systems: https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago

Others have answered, but it is interesting to know the history of UNIX and why this came to be. BSD is technically UNIX derived, but being more specific isn't the reason why it has distinct branding. As with many evils the root is money, and there's a lot in play into how it all happened, including AT&T being a phone monopoly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories,_Inc._v._Berkeley_Software_Design,_Inc.

And I recommend watching this video informative and funny about the history and drama behind it all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7tvI6JCXD0

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I am glad a Suikoden 1 & 2 collection is coming. I missed out on them back in the day and 3 which I played but never finished. I finished 4 and later, including Tactics and Tierkreis.

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 5 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I still play Ridge Racer Type 4, so I do appreciate well designed games that hold up decades later.

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 20 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Thanks good fellow. I never actually played it before.

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee -1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

It is pretty late for me. Sorry. And thank you for your patience. Repeating it three times helped.

It will be interesting to find out if the resulting binary is the same or not and what’s possible once it matured.

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Apple does give email service for two decades now

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee -4 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I am not in the mood to read a technical document, but I don’t think the resulting binary/byte code should be different between the two “hello world” programs. But then again, why not?

Without the preview feature enabled, it is not an optional part of the method signature. It specifically looks for a main(String[]) signature.

Ah ha! So that’s what’s going on here. They almost got it right. They had the potential to make a lot of the boilerplate optional or implicit under relevant circumstances, but instead the language has two explicit switchable modes.

Can I write a Java application in “preview feature”?

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee -1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (5 children)

Main method is not public static

It must be somewhere under the hood. Otherwise, it wont be callable and it would require an instance of an object to call. Unless the object here is the Java environment?

No String[] args

They are just optional I'm sure, like C and C++. You still need them to read command line arguments.

All in all, these syntax improvements are welcome. I already moved on to Kotlin for Android development though.

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago

The Digg bar is why I stopped using Digg

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 120 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Info Wars might actually become credible

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