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Hi, I'd like to introduce my new project http://www.int6.org which is a project that wants to collect all avaible os development resources together. In order to achieve this, user submission is required, so that site runs a digg like software called pligg. Please check the site, all comments are welcome!

http://www.int6.org

why another site..
already osdev wiki is useful !!

yes... how horrible, more OS development info.

nice site btw.

prave wrote:why another site..
already osdev wiki is useful !!

osdev wiki's resources section is not useful as digg-driven systems. It does have voting system, plus comments.

@OP. I don't know quite what to say. This made me dislike your site quite a bit. Any remotely competent programmer would know perfectly well how to avoid /every/ one of those 'failures' of C. C does not **** with you. It does what you tell it to do, and is a language abstraction just above assembly. If you want "Fisher Price" coding, use pascal or something 'simpler'. C is for intelligent developers.

(Hint: Try '-W -Wall -Wextra -Werror -ansi -pedantic -std=c99' on your cflags for /any/ of those. You'll find out that the compiler can tell you a hell of a lot more than you give it credit for.)

I agree.
Most of those 'issues' with the language were not issues with the language at all, but rather the programmer making mistakes. Can't stop that.

I don't like the 'Live Traffic Feed'. It publicly says where a user arrived from, which, in some circumstances, could be 'unfavorable' to said user...

as long as it doesn't say the username it's not very revealing.
if the article on C is bad, it will get voted down - just like it should.
The dig-like scheme seems interesting.

Nice site! I like the name

syntropy wrote:@OP. I don't know quite what to say. This made me dislike your site quite a bit. Any remotely competent programmer would know perfectly well how to avoid /every/ one of those 'failures' of C. C does not **** with you. It does what you tell it to do, and is a language abstraction just above assembly. If you want "Fisher Price" coding, use pascal or something 'simpler'. C is for intelligent developers.

(Hint: Try '-W -Wall -Wextra -Werror -ansi -pedantic -std=c99' on your cflags for /any/ of those. You'll find out that the compiler can tell you a hell of a lot more than you give it credit for.)

the link you mention is just a resource you know which directs to http://www.andromeda.com/people/ddyer/topten.html

I had to forcibly restrain my upchuck reflex several times during my reading of that article.

EDIT: I'm not a freak. I would dislike it extremely if someone called me that to my face. It's a derogatory term, you know...

Your "Top 10" List currently has 18 entries. Perhaps you are using an octadecimal numbering system? You also made an omission:
If you actually meant to assign the value 2 to the variable x, C will just go ahead and compile the above code anyway, merrily assigning the value 1 to x! What a cr*ppy language

Cheers,
Adam

I would suggest removing the swearing in your introduction. It annoys me and makes the site seem kind of childish. Also "And as you may already know" not "now" (though that is just a small correction).

I don't really agree with the article on C. I admit that sometimes these things accidentally creep in, but if you write reasonably sized pieces of code and test them well (use some printing to show the progression of values etc) this shouldn't be a problem. So I agree, it is the programmer, not the language, since most C programmers should know about these traits, and deal with them with little thought.

Other than that I guess your site is ok, though I prefer wikis to this Digg thing. I don't think freak is quite the right word either.

AJ wrote:Your "Top 10" List currently has 18 entries. Perhaps you are using an octadecimal numbering system? You also made an omission:

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int x = 1;

If you actually meant to assign the value 2 to the variable x, C will just go ahead and compile the above code anyway, merrily assigning the value 1 to x! What a cr*ppy language

Cheers,
Adam

that article do not belongs me..

ps: i'll change the site title as requested

IMO the title should've been more like Top ten of C programmer's mistakes (ignoring the 18 item count). C eats ignorant people only because its told to.

I still do some of them regularly: