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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 one that cannot metamoderate?
The option doesn't appear on the top of the page anymore...
It's like that since 2-3 days...
An idea?
A.D. 1517: Martin Luther nails his 95 Theses to the church door and is promptly moderated down to (-1, Flamebait).
sorry people but i must spred the truth, openbsd is not secure, windows is audited, so is openbsd, auditing == not secure! linux and openwall is far more secure, although openbsd's inetd.conf is secure, comments?
If you ignore ACs because they are anonymous - you're an idiot.
Truly free software is not just free of charge, it is free of ownership by venal entities. Truly free software owns its own copyright.
Copyright © 2002 by the AI Mind itself as a person with full civil rights lets the world know that a Technological Singularity is coming in which we homines sapientes will share stewardship of the earth with the new species of Robo Sapiens which will not tolerate having commercial companies own its psychome [neural design] the way we humans meekly let profiteering megacorporations grab ownership of our cell-lines and our human genome.
C is widely used because it allows the programmer to do exactly what he or she wants with (except in a few cases) the ability to be able to predict how the resultant binary will 'look'.
For example, the in-memory layout of a 'struct' is exactly how the programmer decided it should be - with the exception of padding, which has a well-defined behaviour anyway.
Similarly, the same applies to calling conventions, and to a certain extent, the raw machine code that gets generated.
C++, on the other hand, I hate, becuase it doesn't give you this fine-grained control (for example, the in-memory layout of a class containing virtual methods is largely implementation-defined, I believe).
The majority of the 'other' languages (with the exception of those such as Pascal, FORTRAN and COBOL) generally execute within a VM, which as well as letting you do lots of neat stuff (most of which you can do in C with a little bit of effort and a decent dynamic linker API), it also adds a layer of abstraction which means it's difficult to see how corresponds to assembler output. You're constrained by the VM, meaning that if you want to optimise for a particular CPU or architecture, you need to rebuild the compiler/interpreter/whatever and optimise the VM itself.
My two cents.
I looked you up in the dictionary and found a reference to asshole. Interesting huh?
fuckin facinating world we live in eh?