obdurak

In a related topic, it seems that pulsed microwaves (such as GSM signals) increase the blood-brain barrier permeability. Could that explain their cognitive effects? Could caffeine protect from GSM hazards?

I applaud the effort, however the scan quality is very low - it's barely readable, even to humans. Also he should highlight the search terms.

Yes but it's a C++ vs C argument and I certainly wouldn't advocate C++ for anything. What would be more appropriate I think is a type-safe high-level language with garbage collection, where you can at least concatenate strings and forget about it for most of the code, save maybe the lower-levels in pure C.

That's what happens when you outsource your bodily functions to computerized technology.

Couldn't read it, the link has been down for a few hours.

They certainly are expert C coders and a VCS can benefit from direct-to-the metal code. Let's hope that lower-quality C won't creep in.

You could go further and say that all languages are lists of characters and wish for a language without the lexical top layer.

Why detect, when you can correct?

I see that Git has indeed advanced, sexier concepts than Hg. However there is one thing that makes me uncomfortable with Git: Its source code is a bit like the Linux kernel: written in C, messy, with lots of scripts (including Bash and Perl scripts). Mercurial's is written in Python. As an Ocaml hacker, I do not like Python much; however I think a tool such a VCS ought to be written in a higher-level language than C, even if that means Python. How are we going to be sure that the Git code doesn't contain nasty buffer overflows? If Python does not give static type safety, at least it shields against segmentation faults.