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[hawkwind]

The Hawk says enjoy whatever part of the season you choose to observe 

[Marvin Fröhlich]

The Hawk says enjoy whatever part of the season you choose to observe 

Funny way to describe Christmas (or hanuka or what ever) . Let me join you wishing all the best.

Marvin

[lonesomeStranger]

Let me too 

[hawkwind]

Well depending on where you live it is simlpy Christmas...here in the US EVERYBODY needs their own politically correct holiday and they make up fake holidays to meet their needs..we have Kwanzaa for your african americans,
Solstic for your pagans
the hanuka people have forced damn near everyone to pull their holiday decorations from public areas
now the atheists have created their own holiday...


Yoicks!!!   I get ercked and irritated so I used a generalized approach so nobody get mad that their needs were ignored...

['n ddrylliog]

This is *definitely* something that abstraction can solve.

I suggest a :

Code:

public interface HolidayGreeter {
  public void greetHoliday(Date d);
}

Code:

public class HolidayGreeterFactory {
  public HolidayGreeter makeGreeter(ReligionViews rV) {
    switch(rV) {
      case CHRISTIAN:
        return new ChristmasGreeter();
      case PAGAN:
        return new SolsticGreeter();
      case AFRICAN_AMERICAN:
        return new KwanzaaGreeter();
      case HANUKA:
        return new HanukaGreeter();
      default:
        throw new UnsupportedGreetingException("Happy Whatever!");
    }
  }
}

[hawkwind]

   Amos,

  How have you been??  Long time no type!  Whats have you been doing??

['n ddrylliog]

Yeah absolutely, it's been quite some time since I last came here (regularly). Well, first off, I've begun studies in Microtechnics at the famous swiss polytechnic scool EPFL http://epfl.ch/, so even just that has been time-consuming.

Apart from that, I've been hmm.. studying function-level programming (hellooooo Haskell), writing a media player (creeplayer, in Java/Swing lost the code unfortunately), a PHP templating framework for slick websites, and parsers/preprocessors/compilers for fun. Did you ever try to parse stdio.h ? Then you know what I mean.

My current "serious" project is OOC, "Object-Oriented C", which is a dialect of C with some Java-like features (limited support for classes, a Garbage Collector, etc.), and the "compiler" produces pure C code =) That's for a computer science assignment that the teacher *wanted* in pure C, so yeah I give him whatever he asks.

My other main language project is Hackit, in which I'm experimenting with shortest-yet-crystal-clear syntax designing. I have learned assembler (nasm <3) these last few monthes and I have a working front-end and back-end (just need to connect them, *duh* ).

So you see, I'm not particularly inactive in the programming field. It's just that I'm not quite in Xith3D anymore. Not to say that these days are definitely behind. I'd still love to do some Xith3D now and then, if only I had the time.

What about all of you ? Why don't I see more stunningly shiny new Xith3D projects on this damn forum ?