Anybody know the first thing about Linux?

[GaijinPunch]

Java doesn't have pointers? That seems... not right. Maybe I read that wrong.

I have a friend here that's actually getting a CS degree from Purdue. He says they start w/ Java, and the 3rd year they go to C. I never studied computers in college so I can't say. I learned all my shit on the job, and came from a scripting background. So, to say I have knowledge gaps is an understatement. My head gets spun around when I have to do shit like bitwise operations that today, are rarely used compared to the olden days.

[Davey]

Java doesn't have pointers? That seems... not right. Maybe I read that wrong.

Sort of. Java has references, which are basically safer (but more limited) pointers. Of course, C++ also has references, but Java references are more like C++ pointers than C++ references.

[louisg]

It seems weird that people use Java as a teaching language.. I remember it being harder to get a grip on than C++. It was what I tried to learn after Pascal and BASIC, and I just remember being assaulted with unexplained keywords

Poor Pascal.. that was a good one. Powerful, easy to learn, simple.

[KBZ]

Something I've been playing around with is KXStudio and am very happy with it.

This is the first distro where EVERYTHING is routed through JACK which is kind of a big deal for me. Of course I wish that everything used jack natively but having ALSA and PULSEAUDIO routed through jack works very well. Working just fine with my M-Audio Delta 44, which doesn't always play nice with new distros.

Any musicians out there should give it a shot for fun.