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Yawn. Really Gareth, with the utmost respect, will you just f*ck off and die?
*plonk*-- If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State. Joseph Goebbels
If you don't like Linux and C try RISC OS and BBC Basic
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He claims not to like any of the higher-level abstractions that make it easier to build modern systems - having apparently been a close-to-the-metal real-time developer he claims anyone who doesn't write assembler is inferior. I think he just struggles to deal with stuff he's not used to, and rather than face the fact that he can't learn new things, he tries to make out that nothing but old-skool is worth doing.
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-- Bah, and indeed, Humbug
I cant answer for anyone else, but for me the sigh of relief in being able to write what amounted to shorthand macro assembler at 5 times the speed, with C, was a blessing not to be denied.
-- "I guess a rattlesnake ain't risponsible fer bein' a rattlesnake, but ah puts mah heel on um jess the same if'n I catches him around mah chillun".
That's not true; I worship the computer as a complex machine in its own right.
That's not true, either.
What I have said is that anyone claiming to be a computer scientist who does not understand programming at the lowest level is not worthy of the accolade.
That's just rather silly and infantile abuse.
I love programming C (and Perl). I also thought Smalltalk was brilliant when we did it at uni but never really found a use for it.
Hehe - I expect no less.
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