In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd people.

Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

I'm a big non-believer in manual driver and kernel configuration, be it visual or not.

The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.

Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.

Only wimps use tape backup. Real men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.

An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very few people want to do the testing.