The-Teacher

Here is my second blog of relevant and worthy links to interesting stories from web-land.

Linux is an alternative operating system, this story talks about how the kernel(a part of the operating system which we will soon cover in class)has almost 7 million lines of code. Yes I know the headline says 10 but it then goes on to say that a lot are blank lines and comments(see I told you that programmers use comments... and you all thought it was a waste of time). Interesting also to note that 3% or so of the kernel is written in assemby language. Which category does assembly language fall into?

Here is an interesting story from the software devlopment world. It seems the programming language to have in your list of languages you can code in is COBOL. These developers are in high demand due it being a somewhat older language used in business and finance administration systems. The reason for this shortage is because the language appeared in the 60's and a lot of the programmers are now retiring. Students nowadays are learning more modern languages. So if you fancy putting some time in wuth COBOL you might just beat the credit crunch which has now been upgraded to a recession.

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 Ok that is all, we are almost on Saturday and I've only played about 3 rounds of Tiger Woods 09 so far...