Re: Anyone ever tried experts-exchange for freebsd questions?

2006-04-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 01:00:04AM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote: Was just looking at some of the questions people post on that service. However can't see the solutions.. anyone using that service or anything like it for FreeBSD? With enough time usually one can figure out most things..

Re: Anyone ever tried experts-exchange for freebsd questions?

2006-04-23 Thread David Stanford
I agree with Darren that you shouldn't need to sign up for experts-exchange, as there are plenty of online resources available for FreeBSD. However, I do have an experts-exchange account and can tell you that, although I have only needed to ask maybe four questions, you can usually get much

Re: Why is not more FreeBSD software written in C++?

2006-04-23 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Don Dugger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So if c++ isn't all that good it's ISO fault not ANSI? Why is this so important to you. It isn't. Please try reading what I write. You might want to read up on C and C++ as well, and come back when you know a little bit more. He is Danish. Murray Hill,

Re: Why is not more FreeBSD software written in C++?

2006-04-23 Thread Dan Strick
On Sunday 23 Apr 2006 02:03, Benjamin Lutz wrote: On Saturday 22 April 2006 17:11, Dan Strick wrote: On Thursday 20 Apr 2006 22:58, Benjamin Lutz wrote: (this line corrected) The example above is not exactly a realworld example. Even if you stick to plain C, a repeated putchar(' ') is

Re: Why is not more FreeBSD software written in C++?

2006-04-23 Thread Don Dugger
I think this points out another issues with performance. That some times the OS and the compilers implementation have more effect then the language. I have hard that argued to use native compiles on OSs like SUN and HP over GNU. The idea that the computer manufacture can implement the compile

Re: Anyone ever tried experts-exchange for freebsd questions?

2006-04-23 Thread Francisco Reyes
David Stanford writes: I agree with Darren that you shouldn't need to sign up for experts-exchange, as there are plenty of online resources available for FreeBSD. As I replied to his post, I agree that given enough time between searching archives and the free lists one can get an answer. I