From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <6104d1669942e762ba6bd4ab80bfca37@cat-v.org> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] new compilers Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 23:02:06 +0200 From: uriel@cat-v.org In-Reply-To: <6e35c0620604031341k3effda87i762a2cc511bdbb82@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2dd7536e-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > On 4/3/06, Bruce Ellis wrote: >> i recall a prof who bought a mac becasue "it wasn't unix" and "it wasn't intel". >> that was years ago .... things have changed huh? > > Speaking of which, does anyone have any opinion of Objective-C, other > than the preponderance of things like > kAudioHardwarePropertyBootChimeVolumeRangeDecibels in the prevalent > code? I would rather ask: "What is wrong with C?" and then "What is wrong with C that Limbo didn't fix?" Maybe 9fans should be renamed lunix-history-buffs-and-apple-fanboys... uriel