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"Analyst firm Forrester has encouraged businesses to recruit software developers who take part in open source projects, as it shows they are keeping their skills current."
Like those working on the crown jewel of all open source projects: the Linux kernel, whose architecture (monolithic kernel) was obsolote already then when it was first created, and is still written using a 40-year old software technology (C++)? That surely proves the developers are "hip" and up-to-date with current technologies.

FF22, on 01 May 2012 - 06:23 AM, said:

a) The Linux kernel was written in C, not C++.
Linux != "all open source". Maybe you've heard about Ruby, PHP, etc?
c) I'm not sure if you have noticed, but little open source project sorta drive the world (Linux, Apache, PHP, Perl, the list goes on and on).
d) You obviously aren't "hip" enough to notice these little things.

dabeave666, on 01 May 2012 - 01:45 PM, said:

Python ftw

Linus Torvalds said:

This post has been edited by RickDobbelmannqbtt: 01 May 2012 - 02:31 PM

Does this mean that Open Source coders are younger or are they just full of preservatives?

Is Red Bull a preservative? We already know that Twinkies have a half-life of about a million years.

This post has been edited by nonseq: 01 May 2012 - 03:11 PM

I think the 'deal' is that open source programmers aren't as burnt out, demoralized, etc. by corporate 'bosses' that make life hell. You know, the 1,000th time you thought your were finally finished, and they changed their minds again? Yeah, that gets real old. Eventually, you never get ANY satisfaction for accomplishing ANYTHING, because you never do accomplish anything at a 'real job'. It's IMPOSSIBLE to. There are always half a dozen middle-managers gaining temporary supremacy, having their way with the design, then getting vetoed and and forcing each other to change it, with you, the programmer, at the bottom of that fecal tidal wave.

So OF COURSE open source coders are 'fresher'. They don't have to make retards happy for a living. And if it's their own project, they're the absolute boss of it.

BTW, 'C++' is an abomination.

Code written in C tends to still compile after decades. 40 year old K&R code still compiles! That's some serious stability.

Code written in C++ sometimes won't compile on a 'newer' compiler, even mere months after it was written. You can claim the programmers didn't 'follow the rules', but by the time you make it build and run with the new compiler, it will never compile on the 'old' one, because the old compiler ENFORCED 'rules' that the new compiler enforces 'differently'. C++ is pure misery. Always archive a C++ project with the compiler needed to build it, in a virtual machine. It can be a nasty surprise trying to bring an 'old' C++ project back to life to add minor tweaks, or language hacks, or bug fixes. Like a horror movie.

You can use templates and write object oriented code in C89 easily enough, and have complete control as you do it, and the code will generally compile with any C compiler, new or old. The rules, like the language, are simple. Though C99 does have some nice features, and when those are fully implemented, they make some template fun even easier. If you stick to GCC, it's almost always a no-brainer.

FF22, on 01 May 2012 - 06:23 AM, said:

Math foirmulas may be written with a formula 4000 years old, as long as they are RIGHT. Software is a math formula. The re-invention of an API is not always something really "new", but we could do it, to generate more income, or was it: to generate more TAX money? We can find that a nice "agreement" in a secret Parliament.