Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On 2/11/25 7:44 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

John Ames wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
 

On Sun, 9 Feb 2025 21:54:27 -0500
"WokieSux282@ud0s4.net" <WokieSux283@ud0s4.net> wrote:
>

As for "bondage" ... not sure where you heard that. Pascal - esp the
later Borland-derived versions - are a great all-purpose environment
and you can actually READ yer code a year later.

>
Turbo Pascal didn't come 'round until 1983, though - a whopping 13
years into the language's history. And some of Wirth's staggering mis-
features earned the B&D label all by themselves ("solving" bounds-
checking issues by making array size part of the type specification is
something only a truly demented brain could ever conceive of.)

 Can you say "std::array<>"?
 I knew you could. :-)

   Nothing wrong, or unique, about fixed-size arrays.
   You don't want them for some stuff, do want them
   for other stuff. CAN elim a lot of range-checking
   code.

Of course, there were other extended versions of the language predating
TP - but, as Brian Kernighan famously observed, they mostly just made
it look more like whatever language the implementors *really* wanted.