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Originally Posted by rbatte1

banunkin, Do you mean the "If those foreigners don't understand, just shout louder" brigade?

Not exactly. What i mean is the "i want everything in a foreign land to be exactly like i am used to at home" - which begs the question "why go to a foreign land in first place". I live in Frankfurt/Main right now. At the corner there is a nice little italian restaurant i like to visit for dinner. The restaurant is run by a married couple: she - doing the service - is speaking some odd mixture of german and italian, which passes for "cute". He (the cook) is speaking no german at all. They have 3 daughters, all married to italians, they talk only in italian, they never spend their vacation anywhere else than Italy (precisely, they say "at home"), albeit already living for 25 years in Germany, etc..

I couldn't spend my life that way. I know not a single word of japanese, but if i would be forced to live in Japan, I'd try to speak japanese as fluently as possible. I would not dine exclusively in austrian restaurants and i would clothe myself like the japanese people do. If this includes kimonoes or something else foreign to me, then so be it.

It is the same with programming languages. For instance: of course it is possible to use C-like pointer structures in PASCAL - it is just cumbersome, inefficient and PASCAL is not really made to use memory like that. Of course it is possible to program around FORTRAN math functions (in fact i had to maintain such a program once - i still have nightmares from that) in a bid to outperform them: it is highly improbably, though, to succeed and there is a good chance to just produce tons of unreadable, unmaintainable and outright shitty code.

There are some tenets every programmer, regardless of his toolset should observe: simplicity, encapsulation, proper indentation, well-defined interfaces, .... But then, there are some innate strategies, structures, ways to deal with certain problems special to every programming language. One can argue if object orientation is a good programming paradigma or not - but if you think it is not, then you should not use Oberon or Modula 2 but stick to PASCAL, even if it is not well suited for large software projects. But I'd prefer to debug a well-written PASCAL-program over a poorly-written Oberon-program.

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setpriority

GETPRIORITY(2)						      BSD System Calls Manual						    GETPRIORITY(2)

NAME

     getpriority, setpriority -- get/set program scheduling priority

SYNOPSIS

     #include <sys/time.h>
     #include <sys/resource.h>

     int
     getpriority(int which, int who);

     int
     setpriority(int which, int who, int prio);

DESCRIPTION

     The scheduling priority of the process, process group, or user, as indicated by which and who is obtained with the getpriority() call and set
     with the setpriority() call.  Which is one of PRIO_PROCESS, PRIO_PGRP, or PRIO_USER, and who is interpreted relative to which (a process
     identifier for PRIO_PROCESS, process group identifier for PRIO_PGRP, and a user ID for PRIO_USER).  A zero value of who denotes the current
     process, process group, or user.  Prio is a value in the range -20 to 20.	The default priority is 0; lower priorities cause more favorable
     scheduling.

     The getpriority() call returns the highest priority (lowest numerical value) enjoyed by any of the specified processes.  The setpriority()
     call sets the priorities of all of the specified processes to the specified value.  Only the super-user may lower priorities.

RETURN VALUES

     Since getpriority() can legitimately return the value -1, it is necessary to clear the external variable errno prior to the call, then check
     it afterward to determine if a -1 is an error or a legitimate value.  The setpriority() call returns 0 if there is no error, or -1 if there
     is.

ERRORS

     Getpriority() and setpriority() will fail if:

     [ESRCH]		No process was located using the which and who values specified.

     [EINVAL]		Which was not one of PRIO_PROCESS, PRIO_PGRP, or PRIO_USER.

     In addition to the errors indicated above, setpriority() will fail if:

     [EPERM]		A process was located, but neither its effective nor real user ID matched the effective user ID of the caller.

     [EACCES]		A non super-user attempted to lower a process priority.

SEE ALSO

     nice(1), fork(2), renice(8)

HISTORY

     The getpriority() function call appeared in 4.2BSD.

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