From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0B3C5138350 for ; Sat, 25 Apr 2020 16:37:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5CDBAE0966; Sat, 25 Apr 2020 16:37:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-40130.protonmail.ch (mail-40130.protonmail.ch [185.70.40.130]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E4D5CE0953 for ; Sat, 25 Apr 2020 16:37:52 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2020 16:37:43 +0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=protonmail.com; s=protonmail; t=1587832670; bh=x9MX2gSqAtUzau6OAI5NzhzwU+3YvCVnUDpgKs7gonY=; h=Date:To:From:Cc:Reply-To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=lcnD3j0TmCCE1OZlYEg4BEcdJ3pCAD6dup9BKJlhOICRUfyNFAWehDO0kFX8wcZEM BmyX91KqaIIIPxQW+2nTN/B868eJIBTSc6jWSbuI4SA9SDYYA60TVRsItgdx4nzzw3 81Ql5YQbBAqlUuuM5b8TsyQKO6+112LDejTmT93M= To: "gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org" From: Caveman Al Toraboran Cc: "lembark@wrkhors.com" Subject: Re: [OBORONA-SPAM] Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20200423152716.51799a42.lembark@wrkhors.com> References: <20200421165803.GB187193@redacted> <11506562.O9o76ZdvQC@peak> <20200421190145.GF187193@redacted> <20200422161455.GA23147@legohost> <20200423152716.51799a42.lembark@wrkhors.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=7.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,DKIM_VALID_EF,FREEMAIL_FROM shortcircuit=no autolearn=disabled version=3.4.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on mail.protonmail.ch X-Archives-Salt: 09add0b4-880a-48e7-b26e-539354a7bfa4 X-Archives-Hash: af42023c3a0a442ad1d8de0b8867fa4e On Friday, April 24, 2020 12:27 AM, Steven Lembark wr= ote: > Main issue I can see with C is that most people today don't know how > to manage memory; not enough of us left who really understand how > malloc works :-) i find it very hard to believe this. because, fundamentally, the concept of malloc/free is the same concept that we expect a 5 years old kid to know. e.g. we tell kids ``return all balls back into the bucket before you leave the room'', which is exactly the concept of malloc/free. probably we can even train monkeys to do the same (return all taken balls back before leaving). so i really can't believe that we have devolved in such a way where malloc/free suddenly has became a hard concept for homo sapiens.