• Is programming C still a thing?

    From Mild Shock@janburse@fastmail.fm to comp.lang.prolog on Mon Sep 2 19:22:39 2024
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    Yeah, if you are lucky, you get a segmentation fault: https://twitter.com/0xRafaa/status/1830331221903376416

    Woa! New C standard version has true/false keywords now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C23_(C_standard_revision)#Keywords
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  • From Mild Shock@janburse@fastmail.fm to comp.lang.prolog on Mon Sep 2 19:32:53 2024
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    One of the seat entertainment screens in the
    Airplanewas defect, and it was booting again and
    again, showing the Linux Penguin logo each time.

    A little bit frightening for an Airplane, that they were
    not able to switch it off. What if it was a computer virus?

    Mild Shock schrieb:

    Yeah, if you are lucky, you get a segmentation fault: https://twitter.com/0xRafaa/status/1830331221903376416

    Woa! New C standard version has true/false keywords now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C23_(C_standard_revision)#Keywords

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  • From Mild Shock@janburse@fastmail.fm to comp.lang.prolog on Mon Sep 2 19:50:51 2024
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    Ha Ha, this gov site is not secure, HTTPS cert failed:

    Ausgestellt am Montag, 3. Juni 2024 um 03:10:29
    Gültig bis Sonntag, 1. September 2024 um 03:10:28 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-24791

    Ok, they fixed it, now its:

    Ausgestellt am Samstag, 3. August 2024 um 03:13:58
    Gültig bis Freitag, 1. November 2024 um 02:13:57

    Mild Shock schrieb:

    One of the seat entertainment screens in the
    Airplanewas defect, and it was booting again and
    again, showing the Linux Penguin logo each time.

    A little bit frightening for an Airplane, that they were
    not able to switch it off. What if it was a computer virus?

    Mild Shock schrieb:

    Yeah, if you are lucky, you get a segmentation fault:
    https://twitter.com/0xRafaa/status/1830331221903376416

    Woa! New C standard version has true/false keywords now:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C23_(C_standard_revision)#Keywords


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