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...is actually touted as a virtue? I cringe every time a new method I need is sewed up this way.) "C is a remarkable language. ... The success of C is due to a number of factors, none of them key, but all of them important. Perhaps the most significant of all is that C was developed by real practioners of programming and was designed for practical day-to-day use, not for show or for demonstration. Like any well-designed tool, it falls easily to the hand and feels good to use. Instead of providing constraints, checks and rigorous boundaries, it concentrates on providing you with power and on no...

...work, although I'm not sure how much testing has > been done with kernels that old. H Peter, I nearly fell out of my chair laughing when I read this. You are *so* right! (And you are *so* wrong for saying so.) Redhat released RHEL 6.5 ~Nov 18th. (I know this because like many other RHEL practioners, I was waiting in line.) I'm guessing CentOS re-spun and offered CentOS 6.5 five days later, that's fairly typical for downstream providers. RHEL is on an 18 month refresh cycle. So RHEL 6.6 will come out Mar/Apr 2016. Thus you're disparaging the latest and greatest for having an ol...

...h testing has >> been done with kernels that old. > > H Peter, I nearly fell out of my chair laughing when I read this. > > You are *so* right! (And you are *so* wrong for saying so.) > > Redhat released RHEL 6.5 ~Nov 18th. (I know this because like many other > RHEL practioners, I was waiting in line.) I'm guessing CentOS re-spun and > offered CentOS 6.5 five days later, that's fairly typical for downstream > providers. > > RHEL is on an 18 month refresh cycle. So RHEL 6.6 will come out Mar/Apr > 2016. Thus you're disparaging the latest and...