Почему в Глаголе нет возможности создавать постоянные составных видов, за исключением ряда из знаков?
Хорошо бы добавить в задачи, которые преобразуют некоторые знаки цепи в другие (например, “^” в Вывод.Цепь или “#” при чтении цепи знаков преобразователем), возможность исключать это преобразование при помощи добавления определённого знака перед служебным…

Этот текст – отрывок из форума пользователей “Глагола” – русского языка программирования. Вот ведь до чего национальная гордость доходит. Вы посмотрите на стиль сообщения – ни одного “новоиностранного” слова, сплошь знаки, цепи, преобразователи. Чистота языка… программирования! Вот пример кода:

ЗАДАЧА Положение(годРождения:ЦЕЛ);
ПЕР
  положение:РЯД 7 ИЗ ЗНАК;
  возраст:ЦЕЛ;
УКАЗ
  возраст:=нынешнийГод-годРождения;
  ВЫБРАТЬ возраст ИЗ
      0 .. 7*1-1: положение:="дитя"
  | 7*1 .. 7*2-1: положение:="отрок"
  | 7*2 .. 7*3-1: положение:="юноша"
  | 7*3 .. 7*8-1: положение:="муж"
  | 60,70,80,90:  положение:="юбиляр"
  ИНАЧЕ
    положение:="старец"
  КОН;
  Вывод.ЧЦел("^мужчина %d года рождения - ",годРождения,0,0,0);
  Вывод.Цепь(положение)
КОН Положение;

Чистота доходит и до имён директорий и файлов, например скрипт Уборка.bat удаляет все продукты “сборочного сценария” (по-другому и не могу сказать; я имел в виду, по-человечески, конечно, “build script”).

На заглавной странице “Преобразователь Глагола” в скобках переведён: компилятор. Иначе не догадаться. Нет, я лучше Perl выучу, чем читать и тем более писать программы на таком языке.

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Yes yes I understand that what would really make the blog better is having more posts. But come on isn’t it what you’re reading right now?

Update: was caused by Spam Karma 2 plugin ver 2.2 which appeared to be not compatible with WordPress 2.1.

However, picasaweb being a younger project and maybe for some other reasons too, it is missing many things Flickr has, such as greater community and tagging. Read this comparison review for more details. But most important missing features for me are:

• Sharpening. In order to look nice on a computer screen which is a low resolution device comparing to photo prints, a picture must be pre-processed to increase its sharpness. The nature of this operation demands that it shoud be applied after the picture is scaled down to a particular size. Flickr seem to do it perfectly – its pictures look equally sharp in all available resolutions. Picasaweb seem not to apply sharpen at all. Moreover it uses lower JPEG compression quality than Flickr losing even more details.
• Picasaweb premium account is only available in the US. 250Mb of free storage is barely enough for 3 albums.

So I am still waiting for one of two things to happen. Either Flickr allows for larger (ideally customisable) image sizes or Picasaweb improves picture quality and expands its premium service into Europe.

The following documents cover the 91% of the subject: Java Servlet 2.4 Specification and JavaServer Pages Specification 2.0. I say 91% because there is a specific topic – J2EE Design Patterns – which is not covered by the specs. You have to obtain Sun’s book on J2EE Design Patterns and read the brief description on what each pattern does. Most of pattern questions offer a specific design problem and ask you to pick the design patterns that would help to solve the problem.

Below are several advice to some of you who are going to take the exam in the nearest future (I know some of you do).

• Read these two specs or an equivalent book from beginning till the end and pay attention to syntax. More than a half of questions are tied to the specific syntax (not even semantics!). For example, the set of possible attributes of <jsp:useBean>.
• If you are familiar and experienced with Servlet 2.3/JSP 1.2 don’t relax – quite often questions are tricky in a sense that they can be treated differently if applied against older spec.
• Read the entire spec – I found the questions quite diverse and covering pretty much everything even including one question about tag files . There were several about packaging like where you would expect TLD files to be located (I got puzzled by this one as I didn’t read about it). Don’t ignore security and security-related syntax in web.xml.

Here is my score breakdown:

Well… who cares about Standard Actions (jsp:) when there’s JSTL? Also clearly I overestimated the value of Custom Tags as I read it three times in a row – hence 100%. I am really surprised I got 60% on EL – I was sure I answered them all correctly. Other than that the results are pretty much what I’d expect after spending so little time preparing.

My weakest areas appeared to be:

• Session bean lifecycle – 66% corect answers, 2 questions answered incorrectly
• Transactions – 87% correct answers, 1 question answered incorrectly

All other areas (about 10 more) are topped at 100%.

This time I chose prometric certified test center in Luton (last time it was Wembley). I liked it better: bigger classroom (lit better too) and no problems with parking which is also much cheaper, £1.50 instead of £8 in Wembley.

So… here I am, another certificate at hand, congratulations are gladly accepted!