[HN Gopher] C-Kermit Update History (since 8.0)
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       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.
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       | "Unix and C badly need a "stability layer" to keep programs
       | working over the long term."
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       | ""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."
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       | "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."
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       | "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.
        
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