Good on you Jeremy,<div><br></div><div>But I think you will find there is a wide spread ignorance amongst many western developers in what is happening in Asia.</div><div><br></div><div>For so long the westerner has thought they were in the lead. And assumes it is still so. I spent five months in and out if the USA and in many sectors they still blindly believe that they are the world leaders still.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Paul<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/10/16 Jeremy North <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeremy.north@gmail.com">jeremy.north@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Paul,<br>
<br>
You need to be careful using "we" when you really mean "I".<br>
<br>
;-)<br>
<br>
cheers,<br>
<font color="#888888">Jeremy<br>
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On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Paul A Norman <<a href="mailto:paul.a.norman@gmail.com">paul.a.norman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> One of the things that is slowly getting my attention more and more, is that<br>
> we have been USA focussed for so long, the we are barely able<br>
> to recognize the rising skill set of the multitude of Asian developers and<br>
> inov innovators.<br>
> There is one Japanese professor who developed a complete super efficient 32<br>
> bit operating system apparently easily portable to 64 concepts, who was only<br>
> held back by the Japanese Government from free pooling it.<br>
> The Chinese are moving ahead in leaps and bounds, the Vietmenese never cease<br>
> to surprise me, and Indian developers are moving to conepts that we have<br>
> bearely heard of.<br>
> We may all be outflanked and surprised by things that we can barely read or<br>
> understand one day very soon!<br>
> Paul<br>
><br>
> 2009/10/16 Phil Scadden <<a href="mailto:p.scadden@gns.cri.nz">p.scadden@gns.cri.nz</a>><br>
>><br>
>> More on cross-platform. Developing for the plethora of devices out there<br>
>> might be attractive, but the other area booming is the server. More and<br>
>> more computing is moving there. Now is my area so odd for NOT using<br>
>> windows in the server environment? In our myriad of servers, I think we<br>
>> have one or two that are windows for some highly specialised software.<br>
>> Everything else is linux or unix. I would love 64bit compilation- but<br>
>> would want the code to run under linux. Sadly, one of the advantages of<br>
>> C++, is that I can write and especially debug in VS, and then compile<br>
>> unaltered under 64bit linux compilers. Theoretically could do so with<br>
>> FPC but the professional C++ compilers for 64bit linux are far better.<br>
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