eric@lucii.org on Fri, 21 Jun 2002 18:10:51 +0200


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Re: [PLUG] All this OT nonesense.


I agree.  We've touched on traffic (speeding) tickets and the gold standard vs.
fiat currency here in the last 4 months.  

To quote Bobby McFarren: "Don't worry, be happy" :-P

Eric

On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 11:53:48AM -0400, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> ... and I don't mean the discussions, but the use of "OT" in the
> Subject line.
> 
> I think you people are too nervous. C is on-topic for Linux (and
> even more so generically for Unix-like OSes, which it seems to be
> pretty well accepted that we can talk about without irritating too
> many people); Linux is *written* in C, and folks are frequently
> asking about libc or include weirdities of Linux, Solaris, other
> things that probably relate. I mean, sure, you *could* be going to
> comp.lang.c to ask this kind of stuff, but you don't actually want
> to. (Trust me, it's not the friendliest place.)
> 
> Perl is probably even MORE on topic for Linux; it's used plenty in
> standard distros. And even more so Perl for sysadmin things.
> 
> So relax! :^>
> 
> -- 
> gabriel rosenkoetter
> gr@eclipsed.net



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