October 2006 Entries
When the V for Vendetta movie popped up on the radar, I was cautiously optimistic, but then I just got some kind of negative vibe and never went to see the movie in the theater. Maybe it was Joel Silver, maybe it was the Wachowski brothers, who knows? Anyway, the movie finally made it to the top of my Netflix queue and so I, hoping against hope, spent a hard-earned evening checking it out. Compared against other Moore adaptations, I'd say it wasn't bad, but it was still extremely disappointing from the perspective of someone who's familiar with the source material. Overall, I...
I could have sworn that I'd answered this before, but a Live search on "bootstrap" didn't turn up anything, so I guess not. Anthony asked: Do you think you'll ever get VB to the point where it's compiler is written in VB? Isn't that like the ultimate programming language Right of Passage? I'm not sure whether every major language has gone to the length of compiling itself in itself, but it's something that would be nice to achieve one of these days with VB. There's no technical reason I can think of why we couldn't build the compiler in...