Andreas

Mostly metal for my part, though there's something to enjoy in almost all genres.

One possibility is that programming languages as we know today will be reduced to a minimum. Back in the early days a lot of work was needed just to display a simple button or edit box, compare that to today where you use ready made building blocks pretty much all gui elements such as buttons, list boxes and dialogs etc. Creating an application for registering customers for example could in theory be reduced to dropping a "person object" on a form. If you need to customize it, adding fields and such could be done without coding. I think accessing the "code" and modify it would still be possible but most would be written in a simple script language. More and more programs will most likely run completely independent of platform, compiler output will consist of two parts "appearance descriptor" and "code behind", where it's up to the target platform to render the GUI according to its own standard, and either the platform itself or a remote server will execute the proper code behind, depending on type of application. This is just a possibility, and seeing as I like the "dirty" code, nothing I'd look forward to, except for the platform independence. Cheers

Hello! With my first post (apart from one in the introduction thread) I'd like to ask anyone who's willing to answer what your expectations are for the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS)? For anyone who isn't familiar with the topic it's sometimes labeled as an Anti Matter detector and is meant to measure cosmic rays. The instrument is scheduled to launch together with the last flight of Endeavour. Samuel Ting who has worked with the project for 16 years has his hopes up for finding new aspects of space, and says there's a chance of the new discoveries to affect all our lives in the future. My question is, what do you think could be discovered in space that would affect us in our daily life on earth? What are you hoping for? If it's alright I'd like to quote some of the answers in a post I made on my site about the AMS. (I won't risk being called a spammer and therefore I don't want to post a link to my site, just include in your answer if it's ok to be quoted. ) Thank you for reading /Andreas

Hello everyone! I'v been a professional programmer for roughly 15 years (You know we carved code on large stone plates back then). Love to read and write about popular subjects such as astronomy, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence and computer science. Cheers