More so considering the city might want to close down the bridge (eh... open it? lift it?!) remotely in case of an emergency.
They might also want to throw in some traffic condensation sensors and cameras for security and/or tickets and so on...
It wouldn't surprise me if the new system turns out to be less reliable and not last as long, due to all these added things. This isn't aerospace-level, but it's still an application where bugs can be truly dangerous (e.g. bridge attempts to open while you're driving across?)
Really a shame for them to resort to such unscrupulous tactics. I quite like 1&1 too. Their mail.com mobile interface ( https://m.mail.com/int/ ) works with NoScript and is perfect as far as my needs are concerned. Quite nice looking too. Very flat and minimal while being completely functional.
Maybe it's that environments mean much more than languages, and with Java the JVM was the killer thing which dragged the language with it. Spark might be that killer platform for Dart, but it strikes me as wishful thinking, especially with players like github coming into that side of the market.
Was mentioned in the article, but often overlooked. Drakon is an old school FOSS diagrams-based visual-editor that outputs C (and Java, C#, Erlang...):
Seems decent enough to me.
If I can park a non-tech staffer on an Excel course for an hour instead of having to hold his/hers hand and explain how a spreadsheet works I call that a win.
I was thinking the JavaScript for absolute beginners also looked like a good one for getting non-programmers into.
I don't think that JS is necessarily the best learning language, but it's definitely about as wide spread as it gets (being out of the box for every modern OS that comes with a browser).
Great. More windows azure ads, goggle apps for business, board development kits, development ides and car insurance ads for me to click on just to screw with marketeers.
