This is one of the cool things about NextSteps' Foundation classes (now Cocoa) where they have explicit immutable collection interfaces.

My favourite line from this is:

“Any integer between -2 billion and 2 billion is seldom a good representation of anything.”

I think that's something Ada got really right.

>Or that 65,000 lines in a source file isn't enough?

I would hope that was from auto generated code somehow..?!!

I've long since stopped caring why people do that, I just fix it so their programs work :-)

I would disagree, a sensible limit that cannot overwhelm the machine even if a multi threaded server is processing its maximum number of emails, should be enforced.

The correct response to a breach of this limit would be for a reply email to explain the limit and why the email was rejected.

The user then could send multiple emails with their attachments, and the system can be sized to handle e.g. 24 threads processing 64 attachments of a maximum size of e.g. 4096kb

That's how you ensure a system sized to your hardware and ensure maximum throughput for all users.

"That's how you ensure a system sized to your hardware and ensure maximum throughput for all users."

Sure, I think we are actually in agreement. That's exactly what I meant by "processing cost and complexity analysis".

iPads have found many niche uses, e.g. in retail, and for people on the road who use only a few apps (e.g. sales or health professionals)

iPads are also great educational tools where kids can interact with the device but don't have to contend with a full blown OS.

It's interesting also that the iPad is kinda growing up to be more of a full blown device for more content creation, since the hardware is clearly more than up to the task, the OS can be kept fairly simple and secure - clearly Apple are responding to what customers have been asking for, and what they're asking for is more iPad.

>anyway, i find windows 10 to be the superior os. Why would you compare iOS to Windows 10?

The better comparison would be Mac OS X (Microsoft I noticed couldn't wait to get to 10, won't be long before they're calling it windows X I'm sure :))

I find Mac OS X to be the superior OS to Windows, since for yeeears I can run fantastic Mac apps and build and run fantastic Unix apps all on the same fantastic hardware.

I would say nowadays, from a scale-up perspective we've never had it better.

Multi-core CPUs are cheaper than ever, and terabytes of RAM are not uncommon.

The only problem is that to have an HA solution with these monster machines, you need at least 2 of them, and maybe a similarly sized test system.

In your haste to get everything back up and running again, don't forget to change the database credentials or you'll be back in the same boat again :)

Haha yeap that was the first I did. Thanks

And block access to .env files too!!

Seems to be largely written in C and Objective C, with Gnustep providing the Foundation Kit.

Objective C I've found to be a great and productive language for writing GUI based apps, with the selector based event handling.

Nice work by the developer.

Which would actually work nicely with a fibres library, so you can yield while you're waiting for the io to complete.