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    [–] infinite_ass@leminal.space 5 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

    All Linux enthusiasts are attractive women.

    [–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 1 points 2 minutes ago

    I'll settle for girlish and overknees

    [–] Shipgirlboy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

    Especially if they are men

    [–] Maiq@lemy.lol 1 points 39 minutes ago
    [–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 points 37 minutes ago

    I better be getting pegged at the end of the night if she makes me suffer by writing C++.

    [–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 26 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

    Put the gun away and throw that cpp book in the bin, fool. I brought The Linux Kernel Programming Guide, which is in C, and my own socks, which are wool. Now let's gets crackin.

    [–] mycall@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

    Bonus points for some Rust device drivers.

    [–] Pickle_Jr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

    I already use linux. My feet have been getting cold lately. it never occurred to me to get wool socks. Is this how it starts? Are skirts next?

    [–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

    Unless you use goat wool socks. Then you can go for a old school hippie build. Sandals, long hair, tie dye shirt and go from there.

    [–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

    Nothing says "I love you" quite like a surprise LFS install.

    [–] Shipgirlboy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 hour ago

    When you find out your partner is into BDSM..

    [–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 25 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (3 children)

    Girl, I will wear whatever socks you want, but... pulls out my own gun. We're reading this damn book instead.

    [–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 hours ago

    Don't kink shame her

    [–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

    how does it compare to k&r (2nd ed.)?

    [–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

    Honestly, I prefer King's book to any other for intro to C programming. K&R is a classic, and is really quite good for diving into some cool tricks (i.e. postfix operation wizardy).

    But as a beginner, I can just say that King's book is much more digestible. The author holds your hand a lot more and assumes you only have a basic knowledge of programming and the UNIX command line.

    That said, the exercises and simple projects do push you to demonstrate what you learned in each chapter as well as enforcing other Computer Science fundamentals like basic data structures (stacks, queues, linked lists) through demonstrations in the C language.

    My plan is to revisit K&R after a few other books in C like Advanced Programming In The Unix Environment, Unix Network Programming, and The Linux Programming Interface. All while referencing Beej's Resources.

    I feel like by then I'll hopefully have a more solid grasp on C and can then more aptly appreciate The K&R Book.

    [–] somenonewho@feddit.org 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
    [–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 hours ago

    Lol. I prefer the New Testament.

    [–] Magister@lemmy.world 52 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

    Linux is C only, ever read the rant by Linus last century about C++ ? I was there, in usenet

    [–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 1 points 36 minutes ago

    He's having the same rant every couple of years. It's always funny.

    [–] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 29 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

    They're about allow bits of rust though

    [–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 hours ago

    Have they tried applying a bit of protective oil coating?

    [–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 hours ago
    [–] dis_honestfamiliar@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

    Wait, you are telling people had discussion in Usenet? No way!

    [–] Magister@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

    it was mostly flame wars, alt.bin.pictures.erotica, warez, discussion about The Simpson, and of course The Oracle, and Kibo.

    EDIT for young people, the usenet oracle and kibology

    [–] Draegur@lemm.ee 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
    [–] foofiepie@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

    Absolutely. Put the gun away. You got me at nerdy.

    [–] m_f@midwest.social 71 points 6 hours ago (5 children)

    The cool kids are forcing people to read this at gunpoint nowadays

    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

    I like Go better

    However, C is still king in a lot of ways

    [–] m_f@midwest.social 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

    C is definitely still king, but I wonder if crABI will eventually be able to dethrone it:

    https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/111423

    If they can define a useful ABI that manages to include lifetimes, that might just be enough of an improvement to get people to switch over from assuming the C ABI everywhere.

    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 40 minutes ago

    The problem is that both Rust and Go are huge. The compiled binaries are bigger and the compilers themselves and slower and more resource intensive. The current benefit to C is that is lean and compiles quickly.

    [–] 30p87@feddit.org 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

    I'll never touch Rust.

    I hate the syntax and cargo too much for that. If that means that I'll never write mission critical, low level code, so be it.

    [–] m_f@midwest.social 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

    What don't you like about Cargo? Is there another package manager you like more?

    [–] 30p87@feddit.org 2 points 2 hours ago

    Well - I of course prefer a centralized package manager like pacman, which I also use for python packages etc., but I mainly dislike the building process of rust, which is usually done with cargo. No libraries, not even a global cache for already compiled dependencies, no distcc. This makes it infinitely slower than most C/C++ projects. Compiling the kernel is literally faster than compiling a "simple" project like spotify_cli (500+ dependencies, depending on configuration).

    So it's ass from a user perspective, waiting for stuff to compile (just for it to fail, and start from scratch, as some stuff needs a clean build/src dir), and imo very weird from a dev perspective.

    [–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 51 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

    Right? It's in the kernel and everything now. Linus likes it. Linus hates everything. HOW MUCH ARE THEY PAYING HIM?

    [–] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 28 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

    Big Rust has gotten to Linus

    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

    Not the L man!

    [–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 hours ago

    Did he actually say that he likes it? My impression was that it's not his comfort zone, but he recognizes that for the vast majority of young programmers, C is not their comfort zone. And so, if they don't hop on this Rust train, the Linux kernel is going to look like a COBOL project in a not too distant future. It does not happen very often that a programming language capable of implementing kernels gains wide-spread adoption.

    [–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 16 points 6 hours ago

    One (1) good programming language is what they paid him XD

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    [–] raoul@lemmy.sdf.org 37 points 6 hours ago (2 children)
    [–] kekmacska@lemmy.zip 14 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

    the author of C++ said that C gives you many opportunities to shoot yourself in the leg. You have a much less chance for this to happen with C++, but when it does, you will blow your whole lower body off

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    [–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 29 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

    Wat? Don't you dare talk that way about my favorite multiple personality disorder clusterfuck of a language.

    [–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 17 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

    C is the only language, all the rest are mental disorders (/j 😉)

    Edit: maybe rust, but it's on thin ice XD

    [–] mogoh@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 hours ago
    [–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 hours ago

    I'm down for Linux, but not C++ (I'm not into S&M)

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