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  • Re: What is a genius programmer (e.g. C, Pascal, Foxpro)?

    From Lawrence D?Oliveiro@3:633/10 to All on Sun Sep 6 22:03:03 2026
    On Sun, 6 Sep 2026 17:08:22 -0000 (UTC), Kalevi Kolttonen wrote:

    Huge and complicated projects like Firefox, Chrome and Ceph chose
    C++ over C and they did it for good reasons.

    Fun fact: even the GNU C compiler itself is largely written in C++
    these days.

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  • From fir@3:633/10 to All on Mon Sep 7 08:18:56 2026
    Lawrence D?Oliveiro pisze:
    On Sun, 6 Sep 2026 17:08:22 -0000 (UTC), Kalevi Kolttonen wrote:

    Huge and complicated projects like Firefox, Chrome and Ceph chose
    C++ over C and they did it for good reasons.

    Fun fact: even the GNU C compiler itself is largely written in C++
    these days.

    the reason is: most people are medicores - so when 'populism matters'
    you got c++

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  • From Lawrence D?Oliveiro@3:633/10 to All on Tue Sep 8 03:34:24 2026
    On Mon, 7 Sep 2026 08:18:56 +0200, fir wrote:

    the reason is: most people are medicores ...

    Are they like manticores, but more ... medical?

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  • From Janis Papanagnou@3:633/10 to All on Tue Sep 8 07:12:05 2026
    On 2026-09-08 05:34, Lawrence D?Oliveiro wrote:
    On Mon, 7 Sep 2026 08:18:56 +0200, fir wrote:

    the reason is: most people are medicores ...

    Are they like manticores, but more ... medical?

    Or medi-cores as an abbreviated form of "medical cores"?

    "Medical cores (or core facilities) are centralized
    shared research units that provide academic and
    clinical investigators access to advanced technologies,
    specialized equipment, and expert data analysis."

    (Whether inferior, mediocre, or excellent; at least yet
    another possible interpretation.)

    Janis


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  • From fir@3:633/10 to All on Tue Sep 8 15:58:12 2026
    Janis Papanagnou pisze:
    On 2026-09-08 05:34, Lawrence D?Oliveiro wrote:
    On Mon, 7 Sep 2026 08:18:56 +0200, fir wrote:

    the reason is: most people are medicores ...

    Are they like manticores, but more ... medical?

    Or medi-cores as an abbreviated form of "medical cores"?

    "Medical cores (or core facilities) are centralized
    ˙shared research units that provide academic and
    ˙clinical investigators access to advanced technologies,
    ˙specialized equipment, and expert data analysis."

    (Whether inferior, mediocre, or excellent; at least yet
    another possible interpretation.)

    Janis



    medicores = medicore c understanders

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