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  • I downloaded slackware from a BBS. It took forever. It booted from two floppies, a boot and a root disk. It did not even have X. I still loved it, because I recently got into programming, and all I had ever programmed on was DOS. In Linux, you could actually malloc() with any amount, even a full megabyte! It was marvellous! Later, I installed it on my HD on a separate partition. The installation process was really fascinating, so much choice, so many new programs! At least the first time.















  • STOP DOING C++

    • Templates were not supposed to make your error messages explode into unrecognizable gibberish
    • “Yes, please generate 5000 pages of garbage instead of an understandable error message!” - statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged

    Look at what compilers have been demanding your respect for all this time:

    ???

    They have played us for absolute fools.