[dev] Object-Oriented C for interface safety?

2014-11-26 Thread Charles Thorley
THIS IS NOT A TROLL I understand that there is zero love for object-oriented programming methodologies on this list, and I am not particularly interested in this strategy myself, although some languages that I like (i.e. Python) make it hard to avoid in many ways. Regardless, this question is not

Re: [dev] Operating system choice

2014-11-20 Thread Charles Thorley
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014, at 06:34 PM, Greg Reagle wrote: > Well I am a member of this mailing list, and I am very interested in > Minix. Yes, to be clear - I meant "ignored in discussions on this mailing list," not "ignored by members of this mailing list." :)

Re: [dev] Operating system choice

2014-11-20 Thread Charles Thorley
Greetings to the Suckless community. Thanks for all the awesome software. I find Minix3 to be extremely interesting, and attractive (at least in principle). A kernel that's only a few thousand (I think I heard 12 last?) LOC sounds like "do one thing and do it well" taken to an extreme. I realize