[HN Gopher] C-Kermit Update History (since 8.0) ___________________________________________________________________ C-Kermit Update History (since 8.0) Author : l2dy Score : 17 points Date : 2022-05-21 17:02 UTC (5 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.kermitproject.org) (TXT) w3m dump (www.kermitproject.org) | eesmith wrote: | There's some nice complaints about the difficulties of doing | (really) long-term software development. | | "Unix and C badly need a "stability layer" to keep programs | working over the long term." | | ""Dangling else" is (or was) perfectly legal when used correctly; | the C language was originally designed for use by people who knew | what they were doing .... It makes no sense to keep changing this | or any other programming language out from under all the millions | of programs that have already been written in it." | | "In my view it is a CRIME to change an API for any reason when | unknown numbers of programs depend on it, and unknown numbers of | people depend on those programs." | | "What I don't understand is how large segments of the world's | economy can be based on software written in a language that keeps | changing out from underneath it." | kevin_thibedeau wrote: | Stricter defaults are valuable so long as you can disable them. | I compile with -Wall and -Wextra and persistently find modern | third party libraries that fail those checks. If you care about | code quality your public library code should be held to a high | standard and build without throwing warnings with less | permissive compiler settings. | sarcasticadmin wrote: | glad to see this, I've been worreid about kermit for some time. I | still really like using it for serial device connectivity. | WalterGR wrote: | At one point, Kermit (the protocol) was kind of the _lingua | franca_ of file transfer. The computing world was much more | heterogeneous back then. Fun times. | | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_(protocol) | jmclnx wrote: | I used ckermit on Coherent years ago to log into work. Then work | would dial back and allow me to connect to avoid phone charges. | good times :) | | I even purchased the book to support the project, it had lots of | cool info in it. | | Eventually I compiled it for Linux when mark Williams closed. I | have not had a need for it these days, will need to see if I can | do anything I can use it for. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-05-21 23:02 UTC)