Michael Levin posted a Java coding challenge this morning to write a Java program to show what terms like e.g., 99.999% reliability actually means.
Here's my quick and dirty take (written while watching F1 :-):
/*
* What does X nines reliability really mean?
*/
import java.io.*;
public class Nines
{
private static int SPM = 60;
private static int SPH = SPM * 60;
private static...
The GNU folks have released version 4.0 of the venerable GCC compiler with built-in support for the C, C++, Objective-C, Ada, Fortran, and Java programming languages.
The biggest general change is the completely new intermediate language representation based on tree SSA. SSA (Static, Single Assignment) is a modern approach to the intermediate representation of the parsed programs which allows...
