Re: C or C++ for FOSS/linux?

Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealmtje@xxxxxxxxx> typed

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I don't know much of C programming, but that is known to me as the way
you allocate an array of 100 integers on the heap in C.
Well, the c++ way of doing that is just simpler to me:

int *i = new int[100]

Yes 'new' is a useful statement.

One among many others...

Well, that's your taste. There are millions of other people out
there (including me), that think different.

Sure, and many do not think at all.

nice statement...
I hope, you did not extend that on my person, too.

I am sure you do not think sometimes too, as do I.

Yes, every time I'm sleeping or watching the TV program. In fact, the
latter is inherently dangerous if you don't stop thinking. The standard
is so low, that your brain would back-evolve into a walnut ;)

Yes, preferences preferences.

Yes preferences! In the end, that's all that matters. People use
software, because the like it and _prefer_ it over other software.
People write software, because they _prefer_ their own thing over
others. And most people _prefer_ to use a modern software like they
prefer to use a modern technology...
That's the reason, why we're using electrical lights instead of gas
lamps... and dvds instead of video tapes and ipods instead of a
walkman... and Suse 10.2 instead of 7.xx (not that recent suse
versions are better ;) )
It's called "evolution"...

Well you can argue Vista is evolution after Xp, and MS will confirm
that, but for sure it brings nothing _new_ to the user, and has him
pay dearly, and has him / her buy more expensive, more power consuming
hardware on top, leading to global warming (they say) that will kill
us all (they say).

It can be argued that -as the dinosaurs did, got bigger and bigger and
then died- that your vision of 'evolution' is just that.
I see for example all sorts of *** happening in Linux kernel 2.6,
that are annoying, and were not in 2.4 kernels, are impossible to
fathom for me without setting apart a few weeks for it, so maybe
everybody should do a reality check every now and then and stop adding
more and more stuff, at least until existing stuff works OK.
I know this will never happen, so then evolution in your sense leads
to the end of Linux as it does to the end of MS OS.

Well, evolution brought the human race to life, didn't it? So we are
discussing right now, because ages ago apes evolved homo sapiens...

I still have an old Suse-7.?? somewhere on a disk, can always boot
in that. That will run KDE and khexedit.

Well, it seems, that it's your personal preference to unlink from the
modern world.

That is a lot of bull, I hhave always been at the front, or just that
one step ahead, just as a dummy loading the next kernel (bugs) or
latest commercial distro is _not_ progres. BTW I use grml now
(www.grml.org) but totally modified so it does what I want and does
not do what I do not want.

Well, I just wouldn't think that someone still using suse 7.xx is
involved in the development of modern technologies. Forgive me, if I
was wrong (seems obvious now)...

I guess, that further discussion about this topic is pointless...

You can never win.

Seen it ;) So I leave you with your option...

Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.
(Rosa Luxemburg)

To the US general freedom is:
The freedom to attack whenever and wherever we want.
(quoted from one US general last year).

Mostly due to misinterpretation of the word "freedom" we are having so
many problems nowadays...
.