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Frank Peters <frank.peters@×××××××.net> skribis: |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Disable SPP On GCC-4.8.3 |
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> From: Frank Peters <frank.peters@×××××××.net> |
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> Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o |
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> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 18:21:05 -0400 |
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> To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o |
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> On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 16:38:52 -0500 |
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> Barry Schwartz <chemoelectric@×××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> > ... programs |
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> > having been written in the wrong languages to start with. (I mean, |
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> > where buffer overruns come from isn’t hard to figure out. They come |
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> > from using C and C++ to write the code.) |
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> Wrong language? I won't even touch this. If I did, it would likely |
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> escalate to a savage exchange on the philosophy of programming. |
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> Since I "cut my teeth" on assembly language, I have an undying fondness |
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> for C. Yet the universal trend is to leave the actual machine behind |
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> and embrace the lofty abstractions of object oriented languages. |
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> Indeed, a good deal of computing power today is used to support the massive |
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> layers of abstraction that obliterate a sense of hardware and make life |
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> easy for the programmer. |
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> But I've said enough already. |
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> Frank Peters |
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I cut my teeth on a TRS-80 with TBUG. Not even an assembler. |
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