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

On 9/24/24 3:17 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 02:45:16 -0400, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
 

Still have my K&R 'C' book ...

 Would hope you have caught up with C99, at least.

   Ummm ... STILL mostly stick to the Original Product.
   Can't go wrong.

Oh, "network programming" is HARD ...

 Not that hard. Some of us do it every day.

   Yea, but not so MANY of you in the world ...
   It's a relatively rare/important skill.
   A pre-threaded bi-di TCP daemon does not require
   THAT much code these days, but the routines that
   code invokes are *complicated*. Do NOT wanna go
   to THAT level.

<https://gitlab.com/ldo/ssl_try_python/>
 

Wrote a FORTRAN app just a couple of years ago ...

 Did you use a suitably recent version of Fortran, namely Fortran 90 at
least? It’s quite a decent language these days.

   F77
   Adequate for the purpose.
   It was a 'decent' language even then. More 'friendly'
   now, but be careful how much 'solid'/'simple' you trade
   for "friendly".
   NOT sure if there are still NATIVE F77 compilers for
   Linux. Things like gFortran - just 'C' translators -
   may as well just do it in 'C' to begin with.
   I *think* there are still native F77 compilers for
   Linux - but quick searches don't name them anymore.
   Maybe 'flang-16' ... but it's reputed to be missing
   some stuff. Good old 8-bit compilers ... Intel 'fixed'
   THAT. DO have an old core2-quad box that still runs
   8-bit however.