Re: Some kind of contextual modulo operator?

From	Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: Some kind of contextual modulo operator?
Date	2017-12-05 07:58 +1300
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On 12/05/2017 01:19 AM, bartc wrote:
> On 04/12/2017 00:18, Ian Collins wrote:
>> On 12/04/2017 12:33 PM, bartc wrote:
>>> On 03/12/2017 23:10, Ian Collins wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Is there any aspect of programming you don't hate?  You do appear to be
>>>> in the wrong job.
>>>
>>> I dislike things that are unnecessarily large, complicated or bloated.
>>> Especially when they don't work. Or programming languages that are the
>>> same, or just overly messy.
>>>
>>> I just like things small and tidy.
>>
>> So why do you continue to suffer on Windows?
> 
> Did I say I was suffering? I tend to do my own thing within the OS (as I
> did before the OS existed).

The whinging.

> It's dealing with C issues that is the problem, and I can't see that
> they would be any better under Linux. Except that building other
> people's projects from source might work with fewer problems.

It would be much easier using C on any Unix/Linux system, for starters 
the system headers are part of the system!  Then there's the package 
management, so you can install as many compilers as you like without yet 
more whinging.

-- 
Ian.

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