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Yeah, we didn't copy that one over precisely because it was kind of a blocker to introducing replacements for outdated design. But I think it can be weaseled into that principle. T…

As you probably already know, WG14 recently finalized work on C23 and began the cycle for a new revision of the C standard, for now called C2y. Traditionally, that means updating t…

I mean... > Six years after the start of the Second Generation, a new generation of consoles appeared (...) For reasons that are not entirely clear, they are considered part of the…

>the premise is sort of flawed. >The author says that the 3rd gen of consoles really begins with the NES, and so these early 1980s consoles can't belong to the 3rd generation. Rath…

> vim predates the fashion for dark backgrounds, If anything, the correct version of this statement would be "Vim was created when light backgrounds were a fad". The "natural" back…

> This is still the case in C11, Section 5.2.4.1. Did this change in the most recent standard? Well, no, it's still marked "just" obsolete. For it to be deprecated or removed there…

@1: The limits are considered obsolete since C89 and implementations are encouraged to avoid them whenever possible. I think the same way we disregard non ASCII character sets, non…

Only handful of Vim plugins have dependencies and even then you need to install them explicitly

Liking to have clean and empty inbox isn't related to limited memory

LIBNAME_actual_function_name()

Yeah, GOTO or global variables are usually a not so good idea... except in cases where those are actually the best tools for the job and any alternative makes code actually worse .…

If everybody became a robot and there's no need for chairs, then to whom is the technical debt supposed to be paid? If there are still fleshbags who need chair, the one created 20 …

Don't worry, I personally know plenty of devs whose favourites are assembly, C, C++, Pascal, Perl... even BASIC, Fortran, COBOL or Forth! And surprisingly enough, among them, even …

It baffles me it's the only comment pointing this out and it's not even at the top. The rest of commenters for some reason seem to equate "technical debt" with old technology and "…

Wait, wasn't Perl 6 rebranded as new language Raku?

You forgot to put "\s" here. But I appreciate the Picasso joke. Too many devs try applying over-engineered abstraction to simple problems. ------ From this place I want to greet on…

> It's very rare to find someone who has C as their favourite language Hello, I visit here every day. Nice to meet you

Python is great for stuff which could technically be a shell script, but really shouldn't; it essentially replaced Perl.

Really? I don't notice difference

Indeed, it had way less computational power, but other aspects were better. I should have worded it more clearly.