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EmilEifrem writes: "Why hasn't everyone submitted this story one million times? Anyway, the Free Software Magazine (FSM), issue 01 is out there. There's a column by RMS, an article about making a living with free software, a C advocacy article and even an "enterprise" section, amongst other things. Seems like a promising first issue. s/Linux/GNU\/Linux/g."
Am I the only person completely put off by the zealots that insist on prepending "GNU" every time they see the name "Linux"? Get a life, people.
I'm not knocking C or making a pro-Java argument, but the author simply can't seem to make a cogent argument. Here's a typical gem:
The answer is that although C++ is better than C, it's not that much better.
Oh, you don't say Steve! Gee, I guess you're right. Or how about:
So Java became a language in search of home and found in the web browser. But it's never been more than a cult language outside this market.
Thats right Steveo, people quit writing Java programs the second they found out applets sucked. Or maybe this bit of cluefulness:
Perl is slow, C is fast.
Finally, there are things you can do in C that you can't do in Perl. Remember the Perl interpreter is written in C.
Is this man writing for ten year olds?
If this is indicative of the quality of writing to be found in this magazine, we've got a new OSOpinion.com on our hands!
I especially found the following passage painfully funny:
I'm writing this column using the Vim editor. The language it's written is C.
Not that I want to start a vi(m) flamewar, but if it is used as an argument that C is here to stay, that's just silly.
Again, without going into the long list of 'cons' of vi(m), I think everyone would agree that vim is not exactly leading-edge technology.