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C Alive and Well Thanks to Portable.NET
rhysweatherley writes "So C is dead
in a world dominated by bytecode languages, is it? Well, not really.
Portable.NET
0.6.4 now has a fairly good C compiler that can compile C to IL bytecode,
to run on top of .NET runtimes. We need some assistance from the community to port glibc in the coming months, but it is coming along fast. The real
question is this: would you rather program against the pitiful number API's that come with C#, or the huge Free Software diversity that you get with C? The death of C has been greatly exaggerated. It will adapt - it always has."
im fuckin drunk
Natalie Portman and grits. That's dead.
Nalini Bannerjee, better known as the "Gender Blender" at FAIT, demanded from the men that they carry equal responsibility in childbirth. Addressing the crowds at the International Women's Day celebrations, she claimed that: "They just get us pregnant and expect us to carry big bellies around for 9 months while they go around happy with their lives. It is high time men started getting pregnant themselves"
Mrs. Bannerjee, 43, the much feared militant feminist who has fought for decades against gender discrimination, was outspoken in her criticism of the way society viewed motherhood as always being female duty.
"There's nothing stopping men from becoming pregnant or lactating. It is just a social issue. Women are groomed to be mothers, whilst men are taught to be fathers. But this is totally wrong", explained Mrs. Bannerjee.
"What is there that a man can do that woman can't do?" questioned Mrs. Bannerjee.
"Pee standing", someone in the crowd was heard to reply.
Have Your Say: Discuss Mrs. Bannerjee's Demand
Just wanted to point out that I have produced the most bug reports for pnet at the time (currently 54 bug reports in the system).
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One good thing I have to say about Rhsy is that he fixes bugs quickly!
My sometimes harsh and questioning nature that brought me to free software is sometimes too much for people to take.
I bitched and moaned alot about dotgnu implementing patent-endanged code instead of following thier original plan.
My complaining got me banned from the project.
Now instead of accepting reports about this buggy software that would warn people that it is not usable on really challenging code (like libx11 or the gcc) that I was compiling with it.
The author rhys tried to *gag* me.
I complained to savannah about this here
In the end, he of course appreciated my valid bug report and fixed them like all the other ones.
The arguments that my bugs are not valid really dont hold water if all of them are fixed. The reality is that the software was lacking major testing, and that my reporting of all these bugs reflected that unstable state.
The funny thing it the backpedling you can find in the history here, the bug is turned from invalid to fixed!
"Mon 02/16/04 at 23:41 rweather resolution_id Invalid Fixed"
So, I would really think twice before spending your time working on pnet/c, because the developers are trying to hide bugs from you! (the ones that I reported (Real bugs))
mike
Introspection is the key to understanding