Re: VMS

candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote at 06:09 this Wednesday (GMT):

On 6/18/25 1:30 AM, candycanearter07 wrote:

c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote at 03:03 this Sunday (GMT):

On 6/14/25 7:27 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Sat, 14 Jun 2025 20:30:34 +0200, Andreas Eder wrote:
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You meaybe thinking of Redox OS https://www.redox-os.org/

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That name is obviously meant to be a kind of word play on “Rust”. As I
recall from my high-school chemistry lessons, a “redox reaction” is one
where one reactant is “reduced” (gains electrons) while the other is
“oxidized” (loses them). This may or may not involve actual oxygen atoms
(which are notorious eaters of electrons), but the concept has been
generalized from that.
>
The slight irony is that the name “Rust” does not come from the well-known
redox reaction that iron undergoes with water in the presence of oxygen
(catalyzed by a little bit of polar contaminants such as common salt), but
from the name of a kind of fungus.

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    "Fungus" ??? TOO CRUEL !
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    Rust is perfectly OK ... but I don't see much advantage
    over plain 'C'. Lots of 'new langs' are like that, just
    'C' with nastier syntax.

 
 
Rust I personally dislike the syntax of, AND its development team is
apparently pretty controversial.

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   IMHO, stick to 'C' ... but use GOOD PRACTICES.

 
Makes sense to me.

Yes, assuming a perfectly infallable programmer, C can be "memory safe"
as well.

Unfortunately, there is no such "perfectly infallable programmer" and
trying to do so is much like trying to remain anonymous online when the
FBI, CIA and NSA are all out to find you.  You have to be *absolutely
perfect* in your OPSEC, every single time.  The FBI, CIA and NSA can
just patiently wait for that one time you slighly slip up, and
*gotcha*.