I like it. My old Speedhack entry comes to mind.

@Neil: That's a cool-looking 3D modeling program. Just don't let your wife catch you modeling other women!

@Edgar: Thanks for sharing that link about vectors. That thread has inspired me to spruce up on my linear Algebra skills (or what's left of them anyway).

I renewed my driver's license today. It expires tomorrow, but I figured I'd get a head start on it. I went to a public notary instead of the DMV. It cost a little bit more ($50), but I was in and out in just 10 minutes! The people working there were nice, too! Definitely beats the DMV.

Sorry but that is just false. C is harder to translate to another language than translate from (say) QuickBASIC or Pascal. This is not an opinion: this is a fact.

The fact is that you must to know C to understand it* but you don't need to know QuickBASIC or Pascal to understand it, just a basic programming basis (in almost any language) and basic English understanding.
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* Practical demonstration:

Ask a newcomer who don't know a word about C if it understand what the next code does:

int whatever (int*ptr1)
{
  for (int*ptr2=ptr1+50,int r=0;ptr2!=ptr1;r+=*(ptr2--));
  return r;
}

Now ask a newcomer who don't know a word about Pascal:

FUNCTION Whatever (ptr: ARRAY OF INTEGER): INTEGER;
VAR
 Sum, Ndx: INTEGER;
BEGIN
 FOR Ndx := Low (ptr) TO High (ptr) DO INC (Sum, ptr[Ndx]);
 EXIT (Sum)
END;

With Nuinio's C example rewritten to be more pragmatic I think the average programmer would understand it fine:

int whatever (int * ptr)
{
    int i, sum = 0;

    for (i = 50; i >= 0; i++)
    {
        sum += ptr[i];
    }

    return sum;
}

That said, these are both trivial examples that do not bare the teeth in either language. Here's the same program in Perl:

sub whatever {
    my $sum = 0;

    for my $x (@_) {
        $sum += $x;
    }

    return $sum;
}

You could probably also understand this Perl program relatively easily (with minimal squinting), but that doesn't mean you can understand any Perl program without an understanding of Perl.

LMFAO!!!!! Awesome examples, yes, that is exactly the code I would show a complete newcomer! Oh man... that was funny.

I find it ironic that you compared Pascal which is rarely used anymore with C which is still in strong use to this day and is the grandfather of just about ALL of the best languages in use!!!

On another subject, followed a really nice tutorial on Blender today and created this. Just need Homer in this pic somewhere...

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C# is better than Java in pretty much every imaginable way. The .NET framework itself is a godsend for people who have to write code quickly that actually works, and scales.

And to buy Mojang paying billions was a greeeeeeeeeeat idea...

Sorry for the sarcasm, but the only advantage I see in C# is that its VM is highly integrated in Windows 10 (and it is an advantage only if you think it is an advantage), but since you can use any other language (including Pascal and Java*) the advantage is quite small.

Note the emphasis in the "I" of "I see"; I must admit that the only (serious) contact I had with C# was few time after it was published for the very first time, and I saw so much in common with Java that I stopped to read. In any case I think we'll never agree in this because there are a lot of personal stuff (education, preferences, experiences...) in this issue.

By the way, where's the Python fanbase? Why they didn't say their language is the best for learning? I really miss that sentence in this discussion.

[edit] I think we found the limits of this thread. Posting didn't work smooth.
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* Fun fact: You can use Pascal to create JVM executables too.

I get the reference

As compared to Java, C# has structs, i.e. aggregate value types. That's huge

Thanks for the link, Neil. Lots of good content there. I can see dot product being especially useful.

So Trent released a trailer for his latest game today:

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAH

I just watched an interesting video. I never knew who was behind Blender's start before and I really like this guy. I love his personality and his philosophy. He was a little hard to understand at first, but you get used to his speech really fast and I just love this guy, his personality rocks. I especially love his thoughts on money, they're right in line with my own. This is one of those videos I wasn't going to bother watching and was so glad I did.

It's surprising the positive things that can come about from doing some good in this world and not being greedy. Ton is a truly special individual as far as I am concerned. This gives me far more respect for Blender and it's founder.

Speaking of Pascal. In one of my computer science classes, we had to use flex and bison to parse a Pascal program into C.

One big issue was arrays.

Arrays in C

/* type name[ count ]; */
int a[10];

Arrays in Pascal

{ name : array[startindex .. endindex] of type; }
a : array[1..20] of integer;
b : array[-10..35] of real;