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I choose not to discuss implementation in that article, but you should never reinvent the wheel (poorly).

If you want to know how to create programs like vi, you should check out ncurses (http://www.gnu.org/s/ncurses/, tutorial: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/)

It's from 2008 and it runs Windows Mobile 6.1, not Windows Phone 7

Oh, I thought the .Net had something to do with Microsoft's framework with the same name

Well, I'm 15, and my "idols" would be people such as Knuth, Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. Then again, I'm more into systems programming.

Why only web developers?

What if I have no idea for how many hours I have been programming in total?

How well does Hurd compare to Linux?

Why would they provide email support then at all? I don't think the customer should have to try a dozen or so means of support before finding a way which works.

Thanks for mentioning that. I fixed my mistake.

The quotes are randomly chosen from a database of my favorite ~50 quotes, so it isn't related to the article, though

I mentioned trigraphs as an example of a C standard feature disabled by default in GCC, and then I just mentioned how to enable just that feature. It wasn't supposed to be included among the most important options, it just got there ;-).

C++ is vastly different from C. I know C, yet I don't know C++.

I started using one just recently. I'm not a web developer and I just installed WordPress less than a month ago. Apparently, PHP scripts are heavy to execute :S

It seems to work better now.

I hope that I fixed the problem now by installing a plugin (QuickCache) which caches pages and serves a normal, static HTML page when possible instead of generating a new dynamically from the PHP scripts each time. I hope.

Good catch. This is similar to "rubber-duck debugging" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging).

Yeah, I said that it especially helps if the language utilises a different paradigm. It is the important thing, actually.

Yeah, I am getting thousands of visitors... :)

For those of you who get a database error, I think it is the huge amount of traffic I'm getting at the moment which causes this (>1000 visits last hour). I'm using shared hosting, which might have problems with this, so in one way, you are DDOSing my site ;-). I don't know if it is safe to tell you to just wait and reload the page, but do that, BUT NOT TOO FAST!

Thank you :). I agree it is always good to see a thing from as many angles as possible. Additionally, some author might have left something out which another one did not.

And, according to that article, they only compared 4 different languages. I think that C could've performed better (C compilers usually give little faster code than C++ compilers do) and well-written and optimized Assembly could do well as well.