La Tortue Cynique / The Cynical Turtle

Evolution du bâton de baseball

Quelqu'un cherche à se renseigner sur l'évolution du baton de baseball, s'agirait-il en fait de la batte de base-ball ? Résumons ici l'histoire de la batte selon baseball-bats.net :

Les années 1850

Le consensus semble se faire autour de la forme cylindrique (contrairement à la batte de cricket).

1859

Limitation du diamètre maximum à 2,5 pouces (6,35 cm). C'était en fait une largeur maximale, certains continuant à jouer avec des battes plates.

1869

Limitation de la longueur à 42 pouces (1,07m).

1884

Début de la Lousiville Slugger.

Années 1890

Les battes à extrémité plate sont interdites. Les battes cylindriques sont les seules autorisées, de diamètre maximal 2,75 pouces (6.99cm).

1970

Apparition de la première batte métallique sur un terrain, en aluminium, alors qu'un brevet date de 1924. A l'heure actuelle, les battes métalliques ne sont toujours pas autorisées en Major League (point 1.10 du règlement, "The bat shall be one piece of solid wood.").

2001

Barry Bonds explose le nombre de home runs en une saison avec sa batte en bois d'érable. Traditionnellement, les battes étaient faites en frêne blanc, ceci marque le lancement de nouveaux débouchés pour la fabrication des battes en bois.

C'est tout pour ce Google Whoring.(Google Whoring, 2004/03/21 18:51) lien permanent

Welcome to the mess

In JSP 2.0 Thoughts: What a mess, Russell points what JSP has become with the last evolution. I disagree on one point: "When Sun jumped to JSP 2.0, they missed a chance to break backwards compatiblity and improve the page language". They can't improve the page language, it's Java (pathetic pedantic argument)! Everything else is a kludge. Back in JSP 1.0, there was an attribute in the page directive: language. I cite the specification here:

• language

  The scripting language used in scriptlets, declarations, and expressions in the JSP file and any included files. In JSP 1.0, the only allowed value is java.

And here is the version 2.0:

• language

  Defines the scripting language to be used in the scriptlets, expression scriptlets, and declarations within the body of the translation unit (the JSP page and any files included using the include directive below).

  In JSP 2.0, the only defined and required scripting language value for this attribute is java.
  This specification only describes the semantics of scripts for when the value of the language attribute is java.
  When java is the value of the scripting language, the Java Programming Language source code fragments used within the translation unit are required to conform to the Java Programming Language Specification in the way indicated in Chapter JSP.9.
  All scripting languages must provide some implicit objects that a JSP page author can use in declarations, scriptlets, and expressions. The specific objects that can be used are defined in Section JSP.1.8.3, “Implicit Objects”.”
  All scripting languages must support the Java Runtime Environment (JRE). All scripting languages must expose the Java technology object model to the script environment, especially implicit variables, JavaBeans component properties, and public methods.
  Future versions of the JSP specification may define additional values for the language attribute and all such values are reserved.
  It is a fatal translation error for a directive with a non-java language attribute to appear after the first scripting element has been encountered.
  Default is java.

Such an evolution. The new specification still blocks PHP5 which doesn't support the JRE (or I don't understand "to support" the right way), but allows Groovy or Jython for instance. So, the Expression Language has not been designated as a valid language for scriptlets, they've just added another pile of monstruosity on this thing. Putting JSP on a resume doesn't mean much now.(Cyberpunk, 2004/03/21 16:12) lien permanent