From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/3710 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Strake Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: embedded newbies site. Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 19:12:39 -0500 Message-ID: References: <1374468011.3719.27@driftwood> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1374538371 29418 80.91.229.3 (23 Jul 2013 00:12:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 00:12:51 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-3714-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Tue Jul 23 02:12:53 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V1QDk-0004lq-Lw for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 02:12:52 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 28610 invoked by uid 550); 23 Jul 2013 00:12:51 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 28602 invoked from network); 23 Jul 2013 00:12:51 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=RfFuRPRnUQoLp6IdoKA43R0VN1ZqZJ80w4CYQI5OI1Q=; b=qDNdEP7bpIz3AjaQbYWzGg3pzkAeIbB2QYtlRbdTAN0tBWjLZGFOVH9A54twroba8+ gCl9HE5Rd4SvFU6rLEVVpXAWJSKmSDqfZOHJa/+07c9YEQtTC2J/Y2PUOnySaN7wVB1V fjkAP7lDabQkPPBvGMG5VAQu0fRaU1eB2SI+FdRTZdtOUNMMslI7241IMA72UNU7WUvu d2eZbSYhLwT7fyX/ib6n98CgnM5aCdrLv4Dg4iCQk4CyckQ3R4p4x++sWdEwziBxmjYm TWs5VgOqTPJxjU2WfK/iie/mshu5Ibq1oXNAUQDa0adFT21Iy82IQ9m0BQPLHcn0spQR pfQQ== X-Received: by 10.180.74.8 with SMTP id p8mr9859667wiv.32.1374538360148; Mon, 22 Jul 2013 17:12:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1374468011.3719.27@driftwood> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:3710 Archived-At: On 21/07/2013, Rob Landley wrote: > What did you have in mind? >> > - efficient (elegant) programming >> > - Why C and scritpting languages, why NOT C++ and autoconf This. Too, why not glib, and other such garbage. >> > - tradeoffs >> > - code reuse including, particularly, polymorphism and composability. >> > - transaction granularity >> > - taking advantage of SMP without going crazy I leave these to someone less ignorant on the matter. I would note too that computers are meant to save our time, including, perhaps above all, the hackers who write code for them. This often seems ignored or forgotten.