Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo

On 24/09/2024 19:24, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

I've never had good chemistry with Wirthian languages,
and have hated them all sinc day one.  Too much bondage
and discipline for me, especially when I can do what I
want in a couple of lines of assembly language (or C
these days) without some snotty compiler slapping my
hand and saying I can't do that.

I had to rewrite shit loads of Pascal into C because I couldn't figure out how to say 'load the 512byre sector, the first two bytes represent a 16 bit number, the next 4 bytes might be a number if  the first byte was X or they might be the start of a sttring if...
The declaration of unions of structures that *might* be what te sector represented were simply so cumbersome as to be useless.
In C I simply cast the operators...
Those that can, write C,. those that cant are forever looking for a language that will program better than they can.
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