[Gllug] More Microsoft FUD

[Nix]

On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Richard Hillesley stated:
>                                                   Being "better than the 
> standard" means "not following standards".

Oops, GCC's in for it.

(Although many of its more grotty, disgusting, and/or ill-specified
extensions are slowly going away; some can't be removed even though they
don't work, e.g. statement expressions in C++. Lovely concept, totally
non-C-like, and does horrible things to the lifetime-of-temporaries
rules in the C++ Standard which can lead to your objects being destroyed
before you're done with them, whoops. Unfortunately glibc's Evil Macro
Hacks use statement expressions, so we can't remove them, even from
C++ :( )

> I can't remember MS security patches being "immediately posted" to their 
> website. This is something that the Linux vendors do much better.

Except for Corel's Debian derivative. (But let's just forget that sorry
episode...)

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