I was reading up on an old article about "Objective-C vs. C++" after continually being amazed by the number of quirks and features that were available for C++. Ya know.. I thought I knew C++. Hell, the first programming language that I learned when I got to college was C++. Yeah, for me "new" and "delete" came before "malloc" and "free".

I'm sure all the feature-set of C++ are useful and were well-intended, but it's just a little too much to swallow. Moreover, straight C just looks very simple and clean. I do, however, like the OOP capabilities of C++... Sure, there's JAVA... but Java, for some reason, just doesn't give me a good vibe ( no flames, plz ). Funny how Anu brought Objective-C up today while talking about his new iMac and the MacOS X... Despite, the somewhat peculiar syntax that smalltalk embedded C code results in, I just might give this language some serious consideration. =)

Man... If you make a living translating between Korean and English, you're not going to lose your job to some A.I. driven auto translator anytime soon... AltaVista seems to have added a few more languages to their bag of tricks... Among them are Japanese, Korean and Chinese. I happen to speak a bit of all three, so I checked them out... Damn they suck.. At least the Japanese translation makes sense some times. The Korean translation is truly out of the world.. The Chinese translation is slightly better... it puts things in the wrong order many times, but it makes sense most of the time... The thing just can't speak Korean.. Check them out yourself!

• Chinese
  
• Japanese
  
• Korean