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 05:30:06 -0000 (UTC) Organization: the-candyden-of-code Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <102ka4k$9umt$2@dont-email.me> <87tt4i9nw5.fsf@eder.anydns.info> <102l0h9$fjtb$5@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 07:30:07 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="6c4f9373326aed7e8d4055fc0f36ba68"; logging-data="3102467"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19+UCqN2dGMFf3YK4xLpRUqwdN+klsfCeVnTa/OEGLj1g==" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:i7n1qHkyq7O6Us7SnBwtANvsW5w= X-Face: b{dPmN&%4|lEo,wUO\"KLEOu5N_br(N2Yuc5/qcR5i>9-!^e\.Tw9?/m0}/~:UOM:Zf]% b+ V4R8q|QiU/R8\|G\WpC`-s?=)\fbtNc&=/a3a)r7xbRI]Vl)r<%PTriJ3pGpl_/B6!8pe\btzx `~R! r3.0#lHRE+^Gro0[cjsban'vZ#j7,?I/tHk{s=TFJ:H?~=]`O*~3ZX`qik`b:.gVIc-[$t/e ZrQsWJ >|l^I_[pbsIqwoz.WGA] wrote at 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. -- user is generated from /dev/urandom