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From: Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me>
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Subject: Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 11:16:24 +0100
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On 9/24/24 08:17, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 02:45:16 -0400, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
> 
>> Still have my K&R 'C' book ...
> 
> Would hope you have caught up with C99, at least.
> 
>> Oh, "network programming" is HARD ...
> 
> Not that hard. Some of us do it every day.
> 
> <https://gitlab.com/ldo/ssl_try_python/>
> 
>> Wrote a FORTRAN app just a couple of years ago ...
> 
> Did you use a suitably recent version of Fortran, namely Fortran 90 at
> least? It’s quite a decent language these days.

We can all do network programming. The art is making it secure and 
resilient.

Not the kind of thing you want a sloppy application developer like me 
going anywhere near, which is why I choose to avoid it whenever 
possible, and to use services that hide the complexity, as far as possible.