Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: candycanearter07 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: VMS Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 19:00:02 -0000 (UTC) Organization: the-candyden-of-code Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: <102ka4k$9umt$2@dont-email.me> <87tt4i9nw5.fsf@eder.anydns.info> <102l0h9$fjtb$5@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 21:00:03 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="9bbe7425d66ca35df8d1617c44f8e049"; logging-data="3479051"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+NABdVxJmuFkWCzU5S/9sXWjcHWWKobH1h+b47Rkf+OA==" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:B6c9i1UfUaEnt5Fadet/ABjDEgU= X-Face: b{dPmN&%4|lEo,wUO\"KLEOu5N_br(N2Yuc5/qcR5i>9-!^e\.Tw9?/m0}/~:UOM:Zf]% b+ V4R8q|QiU/R8\|G\WpC`-s?=)\fbtNc&=/a3a)r7xbRI]Vl)r<%PTriJ3pGpl_/B6!8pe\btzx `~R! r3.0#lHRE+^Gro0[cjsban'vZ#j7,?I/tHk{s=TFJ:H?~=]`O*~3ZX`qik`b:.gVIc-[$t/e ZrQsWJ >|l^I_[pbsIqwoz.WGA] wrote at 06:09 this Wednesday (GMT): > On 6/18/25 1:30 AM, candycanearter07 wrote: >> c186282 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. -- user is generated from /dev/urandom