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GNU sed 4.2.2 released; maintainer resigns

GNU sed 4.2.2 released; maintainer resigns

Posted Dec 27, 2012 0:12 UTC (Thu) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: GNU sed 4.2.2 released; maintainer resigns by hummassa
Parent article: GNU sed 4.2.2 released; maintainer resigns

> This whole discussion is quite silly, and the C++-bashing people on it are acting the silliest...

You are really too kind spending time reading it nevertheless and - even better - enlightening it with your post. Thank you so much.


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GNU sed 4.2.2 released; maintainer resigns

Posted Dec 27, 2012 1:55 UTC (Thu) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]

You are so welcome!

Yes, I know what sarcasm is and I can even detect it more than 75% of the time!!

Seriously, my "enlightening" comment had one of the following intents:

1. To show off how old I am and that I am here since the dawn or time, or the invention of C++ by Stroustroup, whichever came first (hint: NOT); or

2. To try to break up a language war when there are no two languages really competing.

My point, if in the last post it didn't come across is that there is no competition for C++. There is no competition for Java (ok, maybe clojure :-D). There is no competition for Python, Perl and definitively no competition for my fellow countrymen's Lua.

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