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C++ is in that inconvenient spot where it doesn't help make things simple enough to be truly usable for prototyping or simple GUI programming, and yet isn't the lean system programming language that C is that actively encourages you to use simple and direct constructs.

— Linus Torvalds

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Do you pine for the days when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?

2.6.: still a stable kernel, but accept bigger changes leading up to it (timeframe: a month or two).

This whole ARM thing is a f*cking pain in the ass.

Is "I hope you all die a painful death" too strong?

Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?

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