Robert Blass wrote:

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Don't do that. It puts your needs above the convenience of the reader.

Dear Colleague,

On behalf of the 2009 USENIX Annual Technical Conference program
committee, we request your ideas, proposals, and papers for tutorials,
refereed papers, and posters.

Authors are invited to submit original and innovative papers to the
Refereed Papers Track of the 2009 USENIX Annual Technical Conference.
Papers can be either full papers of at most 14 pages or short
papers of at most 6 pages. Authors are required to submit papers by
11:59 p.m. PST, Friday, January 9, 2009. (Note new deadline.)

In full papers, we seek high-quality submissions that further the
knowledge and understanding of modern computing systems, with an
emphasis on implementations and experimental results. Short papers
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The USENIX conference has a broad scope. Specific topics of interest
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I am looking to get my feet wet with encryption. When I say encryption
program I am talking about something to get me off to a quick start.
Something very simple, far less than the 40+ bit encryption code.

What I need is an easy to understand language choice. I've used BASIC
a long time ago but is there another language that is better and more
supported?

There seems to be hundreds of languages so it's hard for me to just
pick one.

I also wanted it to be a freeware or shareware programming language
with a compiler and maybe an editor that has colors and error
checking. I'll need it to be usable in a windows/xp environment.
Maybe a one that compiles into a self supportive EXE?

As I said I am just starting by trying to code a very simple
encryption program. If anything fits this bell then please give me
some information.

Thanks.

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Wrapl (http://wrapl.sf.net) 1.1.5 has been released. The latest
version fixes many bugs and adds:

a) The Web.FastCGI module allowing Wrapl to be used for writing
fastcgi applications.
b) The syntax `expr` (with backquotes) which evalutes expr once at
compile time, instead of run time.
c) Better support for rationals, especially with regard to exponents
(e.g. 2 ^ -1 now returns 1/2).
d) The Util.Random module, for random number routines.

http://www.cilk.com/resources-for-multicoders/for-developers-only/

(For GCC and Visual Studio)

documentation, code samples, training materials for developers

Cilk++ ships in several months, but the above is a preview of what's coming.

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Hello,

I have released a new version of Seed7: seed7_05_20080902.tgz

In the Seed7 programming language new statements and operators
can be declared easily. Types are first class objects and therefore
templates/generics need no special syntax. Object orientation is
used when it brings advantages and not in places when other
solutions are more obvious.

Seed7 is covered by the GPL (and LGPL for the Seed7 runtime library).

Changelog:
- The FAQ about development speed and type checking was improved.
- The chapters about boolean, bigInteger, rational, bigRational,
float, char, complex, string, reference, ref_list and program...

Finally, I found some time to implement JIT support on the Intel x86
IA32 architecture for the LITTLE VM.
The corresponding LITTLE binary release 0.8.0b is available for
download at

http://www.thalion-graphics.de/download

Currently, Linux is the only supported platform.

Btw., Intel x86 instruction encoding is a mess ...!!!

Best regards,
Helmut S. aka Thalion

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Hello,

I have released a new version of Seed7: seed7_05_20080817.tgz

In the Seed7 programming language new statements and operators
can be declared easily. Types are first class objects and therefore
templates/generics need no special syntax. Object orientation is
used when it brings advantages and not in places when other
solutions are more obvious.

Seed7 is covered by the GPL (and LGPL for the Seed7 runtime library).

Changelog:
- The FAQ about static type checking was improved and an FAQ about
development speed and type checking was added.
- A chapter about the type 'category' was added to the manual.
- The chapters...

Calum's post on GPL prompted me to post this. It's something that's
been in the back of my mind for a while but is not a GPL issue per se
so I'm posting separately.

The issue: For an individual to release software that is either
commercial or is in some other way in competition with others then
that individual is much more limited by the amount of time that can be
spent developing the code. A competitor with even a small company
could very quickly understand how the code works and write a
competitive product. I don't think there are copyright issues unless
the code itself is copied verbatim. Nor do I think there are other
intellectual property rights over the code as such. Even if there are
the cost of court action to defend these rights could be prohibitive.

So what protection does the individual developer have apart from
secrecy of source code? IIRC there are utilities which will obfuscate
object code to prevent sensible disassembly.