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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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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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