From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Oct 29 12:12:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61F8F37B401; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 12:12:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from caddis.yogotech.com (caddis.yogotech.com [206.127.123.130]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA29107; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 13:12:21 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by caddis.yogotech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9TKCIp00904; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 13:12:18 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15325.47137.886703.730360@caddis.yogotech.com> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 13:12:17 -0700 To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: Jordan Hubbard , Poul-Henning Kamp , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: time_t not to change size on x86 In-Reply-To: <3BDC3E88.D684676F@mindspring.com> References: <43093.1004217988@winston.freebsd.org> <3BDC3E88.D684676F@mindspring.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.95 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [ Moved to -chat, and reduced Cc list somewhat ] > > > type-checking than C, (but before anybody suggest it: "...but without all > > > the excess luggage and emotional hangups of C++") > > > > Even implying that C++ simply has emotional hangups is like saying > > that Jeffrey Dahmer merely had an eating disorder. :) > > > > That language is nothing less than a distillation of raw evil. > > Any tool looks evil if it is used incorrectly. Any tool that requires you to go through the gyrations that C++ requires in order to accomplish simple things is evil. ;) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message