SCO 6 (RE: FW: The grand finale)

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Four score and seven years--eh, screw that!
At about Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 09:07:07AM -0800,
Bill Campbell blabbed on about:
> Programming Rule #2: Never use proprietary vendor ``enhancements''

Can I get an "Amen"?

That 99.9% of linux dists (I'm leaving it open because I can't prove it,
although I think it's actually 100%) use some version of bash as Bourne
shell is a good example.  I understand the legalities, but this has burned
some people--even me, and I rarely have to deal with that shell.  The
"enhanced" security for suid operations is a royal PITA when combined with
system(2).

> One problem here is that people learning a language often don't
> know what is standard and what's not.  I learned COBOL on
> Burroughs Medium Systems where the language was fully recursive
> on a stack based machine.  I had some very ``interesting''
> experiences when I had to port the programs to IBM which didn't
> support recursion.  My brother learned FORTRAN on a machine which
> allowed recursive calls, and had immense fun porting 3D graphics
> software that took advantage of that.

I'm still trying to figure out (without looking it up) what "stackless
python" is.  That's what EVE Online is written in.  That they've
successfully married python with DirectX is both impressive -and-
scary-boo.

mark->
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