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  • Re: "Brian Kernigan speaks. 83 and still teaching."

    From Mario Rosell@3:633/10 to All on Fri Apr 17 20:25:06 2026
    On 2025-09-04, Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> wrote:
    Am 04.09.2025 um 00:20 schrieb Pierre:
    In comp.lang.c Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
    "Brian Kernigan speaks. 83 and still teaching."

    "The Rust believers are not going to be happy with the answer to one
    question."
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEb_YL1K1Qg

    "At one point during the Q&A, his VPN fails. GlobalProtect. No further
    comment."

    Lynn


    I liked his reply to the question about the current state of software
    today:

    "A lot of it sucks! Unfortunately, it's all too true."

    Yes, and a large part of it because it is written in C.
    Five times the code as in C++ or Rust and the same degree of more bugs.

    *Very late to this thread*, but I really doubt it is C's fault! C
    does everything you tell it to, that means crashing the program by
    reading to undefined memory or making performant software.

    --
    "I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert
    cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor
    hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth." (Rev. 3:15-16)

    - mario

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  • From Lawrence D?Oliveiro@3:633/10 to All on Sun Apr 19 00:10:20 2026
    Asked what his favourite distro is <https://thenewstack.io/unix-co-creator-brian-kernighan-on-rust-distros-and-nixos/>:

    But then he said honestly that while he uses a Mac, it?s only to
    open a bunch of terminal windows ?to whatever Linux system the
    computer science department is running at any given moment. And I
    don?t even know what it is. So, uh ? sorry! I can?t be more
    helpful than that.?

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  • From Mr. Man-wai Chang@3:633/10 to All on Wed Apr 22 03:51:08 2026
    On 4/18/2026 4:25 AM, Mario Rosell wrote:

    *Very late to this thread*, but I really doubt it is C's fault! C
    does everything you tell it to, that means crashing the program by
    reading to undefined memory or making performant software.


    An operating system is supposed to deal with all errors without
    commiting suicide! :)

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