Both are undergoing development
Both support hardware accelerated 2D out of the box
Both are licensed under the zlib license -- that's right, you are now free to statically link SDL to your programs
SFML is mostly supported by one developer, a much smaller team than the one behind SDL
SFML is only aimed at Windows/Linux/OSX for the moment, while SDL supports a much wider range of platforms
SFML 2.0 is pretty unstable at the moment, with the lead developer stating that he's prepared to completely break parts of the API prior to the 2.0 release
SDL 1.3 is probably pretty unstable as well
SFML has a much more friendly API than SDL, in my experience, although this is limited to usage of 1.2
Given my limited knowledge of SDL 1.3, I'm not sure which is the better library to side with. I originally jumped ship from SDL to SFML because of its friendlier API and hardware accelerated 2D graphics, but if SDL 1.3 is going to feature similar hardware acceleration along with a brisker, more reliable pace of development, my inclined to side with it. Can /prog/ convince me to pick a camp?
>>120
I still don't this this guy has any kind of real clue when it comes to the concept of infinity and it's relation to countability. Maybe this idiot should have taken to learn a real programming language like haskell instead of studying brain damaged shit like SICP...
>>130
It's great! But I will tell you, true independence comes from freedom, and freedom in today's ``dog-eat-dog'' world means job security. Apart from kodak_gallery_programmer who is a true master of actual and potential infinities, no one quite knows how I do what I do. But I do it, of that you can be sure!
>>140
Redditors adore bacon though (also blame corporations for making Americans fat with HFCS, also publicly hate on fat Americans hoping to pass for thin Europeans, also adore bacon).
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>>138
Inferior jewish languages, like C/C++ and Pascal, are especially popular in russia, so there is a high chance he is slav, in a sense being slave to jews-khazars. Anyway, only beheading will clear him in a face of the one and only God, Creator and Sustainer of the universe, Who is similar to nothing and nothing is comparable to Him.
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>>139
We mourn the death of Gaddafi at the hands of shabbos goyim infidels.
Four slots were filled by G. J. Sussman (Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT) and a similar number by D. S. Wise (Department of Computer Science, Indiana University). Both belonged very much to the LISP subculture, neither of the two proved a single theorem, both showed too much and made such heavy use of anthropomorphic terminology that they were painful to listen to. Sussman's transparencies were printed, but overloaded; Wise's transparencies were handwritten, but very messy. Not used to Sussman's lecturing style - is it called "teaching by example"? - I found him very tiring to listen to; he spoke very fast but told very little, since he used most of his words to go in detail through a number of almost identical examples. Wise struck me as rather old-fashioned: he seemed to talk about the implementation of LISP in very much the same way as people did in the early sixties. LISP's syntax is so atrocious that I never understood its popularity. LISP's possibility to introduce higher-order functions was mentioned several times in its defence, but now I come to think of it, that could be done in ALGOL60 as well. My current guess is that LISP's popularity in the USA is related to FORTRAN's shortcomings. Edsger W. Dijkstra, Trip report, Newcastle, 19-25 July 1981, EWD798.
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Anonymous2011-11-27 11:27
You probably know that arrogance, in computer science, is measured in nanodijkstras.
Alan Kay, keynote speech at OOPSLA 1997
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F r o z e n V o i d !!mJCwdV5J0Xy2A212011-11-27 12:45
Despite having invented much of the technology of software, Dijkstra eschewed the use of computers in his own work for many decades. Almost all EWDs appearing after 1972 were hand-written. When lecturing, he would write proofs in chalk on a blackboard rather than using overhead foils, let alone Powerpoint slides. Even after he succumbed to his UT colleagues’ encouragement and acquired a Macintosh computer, he used it only for e-mail and for browsing the World Wide Web.