today's profound banalities
Partying hard and dropping dead from AIDS at age 40 doesn't seem ideal. But is it really worse than sitting at a desk until age 70 processing insurance forms or programming in C? (© Phil Greenspun)
the unbearable universality of some commandments (by yours truly, not worthy of a ©)
Нну, если определение Щастья это пить пиво и много ебаться, то цытата канает. Особенно в обществе плохого пива и большеногих женщин, идущих в койку через адвоката.
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Это ж как нужно ненавидеть писать на C?.. :-(
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well, the longer I am in this industry, the more I resent writing in C/C++.
and this is not even of question of expressivity or other such high-minded concepts, but one of safety.
for example, right now I'm finishing second fruitless day at a client's, trying to localize a memory corruption problem in out product that happens to be critical for them (that's why I write in English, sorry about that).
I wish I wouldn't have to spend my life this way.
I hate C, and I hate the culture that tolerates and promotes unsafe programming languages for any task other than bare-metal embedded programming.
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Agreed, agreed! C is for bare-metal interface layers, like OS kernel and drivers. For everything else, better languages exist :)
But C is following the Fortran's path: it's *the* portable language of today %) Though, things like java, perl, python and such are quickly closing the gap.
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