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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: VMS
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 19:00:02 -0000 (UTC)
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c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote at 06:09 this Wednesday (GMT):
> On 6/18/25 1:30 AM, candycanearter07 wrote:
>> c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote at 03:03 this Sunday (GMT):
>>> On 6/14/25 7:27 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 14 Jun 2025 20:30:34 +0200, Andreas Eder wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> You meaybe thinking of Redox OS https://www.redox-os.org/
>>>>
>>>> That name is obviously meant to be a kind of word play on “Rust”. As I
>>>> recall from my high-school chemistry lessons, a “redox reaction” is one
>>>> where one reactant is “reduced” (gains electrons) while the other is
>>>> “oxidized” (loses them). This may or may not involve actual oxygen atoms
>>>> (which are notorious eaters of electrons), but the concept has been
>>>> generalized from that.
>>>>
>>>> The slight irony is that the name “Rust” does not come from the well-known
>>>> redox reaction that iron undergoes with water in the presence of oxygen
>>>> (catalyzed by a little bit of polar contaminants such as common salt), but
>>>> from the name of a kind of fungus.
>>>
>>>     "Fungus" ??? TOO CRUEL !
>>>
>>>     Rust is perfectly OK ... but I don't see much advantage
>>>     over plain 'C'. Lots of 'new langs' are like that, just
>>>     'C' with nastier syntax.
>> 
>> 
>> Rust I personally dislike the syntax of, AND its development team is
>> apparently pretty controversial.
>
>
>    IMHO, stick to 'C' ... but use GOOD PRACTICES.


Makes sense to me.
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