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Reminder that everything is temporary except C and Make

@shac

The year is 2230. Climate change has ravaged the Earth. Our alien overlords, allied with our rogue AIs, rule with iron fists over the small bands of humans that roam the nuclear wastelands. C programmers start considering using C11 features without warning users about compiler requirements, but decide against it.

@lorddimwit Just today I accepted a patch making XScreenSaver's minimum compiler target be ISO C99 instead of ANSI C89. Didn't want to rush into anything.

@jwz

BTW I’m literally on a plane right now flying to Vegas to give a talk where my second slide is a quote from you. I hope this does not cause too much distress.

@jwz

The talk is about implementing regular expression engines.

I apologize in advance.

: j@fabrica:~/src; :t_blink:

@lorddimwit @jwz You’ve discovered your text editor isn’t a sufficiently robust IDE. So you switch to emacs. Now you have two problems.