I love C with all my heart. But I'm an embedded guy, and it's the only game in town most of the time.
I'm periodically convinced that I should try to do more things in C, but I always come back to things like C#. I suppose I just don't need the performance and I'm not at the point where I can put the blame of not being reliable on the language.
Ah, I like that idea. One of the problems was that doing anything from scratch was a horrible pain in the ass (for me) as there was just so much for me to learn.
I'm guessing backslashes? Test: \\ Edit: Nope...
Not a great solution though, maybe mk can help us out? I guess the only way is by making the whole line verbatim? ++
I think, more generally, C makes a poor research language. But then, now that I've been bitten by the Python bug, it's hard to imagine how painful it must've been to write discrete event simulations in Cplusplus.
The longest emerge I've had on Gentoo, besides possibly the hundred-or-so dependencies of X, was actually pypy. I have Boost installed, but I can't honestly remember emerging it, which is to say, it had to have been painless.
quite frankly xorg was painless to install, however i keep it as lean as possible, Ill get back to you on this. Haven't compiled pypy but the longest i've gotten is firefox which i gave up on because after a couple of hours it maxed out the swap! should've paid attention to the notice of "you cant compile on anything with less than 1gb ram"