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That's why you save the commented version on "removable storage" that is ... removed ... before the end of the project. The uncommented version is checked in.

Re: It's a politically motivated witch hunt!

I didn't know tRump was a member of Newag's board.

_{Although, given their behavior and public statements, one shouldn't be surprised...}

Re: If history had taken a different turn

Manure. Pascal was written as an educational language to inculcate the yout' of the time in the concept of rigorous block structuring and goto-less programming. (How else can you explain the brain-dead syntactical differences between declaring a constant and declaring a variable?) It was never meant for doing the kinds of things you can do with C; as such, it would not be able to supplant C without having been fiddled to a (more) unrecognizable mess.

Re: Complexity

Let me add:

- Don't use the latest shiny language shit if a) you don't need to, and/or b) you don't know what you're doing with it.

Re: I must be a bit thick

Actually, I still do not understand why “exiting a non-void function without returning a value” is not an error.

Chances are, it is still undefined because there is a metric buttload of code written that a) has non-standard/proprietary workarounds and/or b) would crash (or not compile) if you actually fixed it. The C and C++ ISO committees are (and always have been, even more so that today) very sensitive about trying to maintain backwards compatibility, and in a classic case of the tail wagging the dog, are also beholden to compiler manufacturers that bitch and wail about the amount of work they would have to do to standardize on a revision for some undefined behavior or another.

_{I'm looking at you Micros~1 (and gad! I do not like what I see...)}

Re: Delusional narcissist

I certainly agree that his personality traits quickly come to the fore: he loves to attack, makes insincere apologies only when he thinks he has to, and quickly goes back on them.

Sounds a lot like tRump, dunnit?

Like this one! After all, an AI (even an advanced, non-hallucinatory one) could give a flying fuck about "increasing shareholder value".

@I ain't Spartacus -- Re: Unity

Nobody will ever buy a Mac again, and all shall have Dell! Forever and ever! Amen.

So tell me, does this mean that Dell wins the Franchise Wars?

And then, I'll compile my own FF without their crap if I damn well please. Let them prosecute me for enabling my own privacy.

Of course that's an option (for the literati, at least). But, so what happens if a browser developer decides to raise a middle finger to the spooks, and continues to protect the integrity of the 'net (such as is possible)? Are they going to get hauled into court in Brussels and fined the typical wrist slap tech companies typically get assessed? Is even that going to happen? And how is it that Brussels can demand browsers work the way they want when the browsers in question are being run in Topeka, Kansas? (I've heard lots of grumbling -- and rightly so -- from Right Pondians about USAians trying to enforce their laws Over There. Seems like this is the Pot calling the Kettle black, so to speak.)

Don't know the weight of the stones browser makers have, but perhaps some good ol' (tech) civil disobedience is called for here.

Bingo cards change with every new session...

...or, you really do like the taste of that Kool Aid...

"Micros~1" is the El Reg officially sanctioned euphemism for that (alleged) software company headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Which you'd know if you spent any time here. Please do try to keep up.

_{You do know whose forum you have logged into don't you?}

Re: There's nothing particularly wrong with it except for its hardware requirements.

I did notice recently that the latest W11 installer stopped and refused to go any further if it didn't have an internet connection

Yet another reason to avoid it like Ebola.

I'd take the 'under' on that bet. First, Micros~1 would have to (tacitly) admit that their Holier-than-thou Millennial-infested "user-experience" thing that continues to foist unneeded and unwanted UI changes upon us "just because", is more holey than Holy. Second, Teams is their X, so they will continue to follow their oh-so-successful IE playbook for that one. And there is still the problem of TPM, which they will similarly not back away from. So from an odds-making point of view, I see this happening about as likely as me winning the lottery. Twice. On the same day. With two different sets of numbers.

Re: So0rry, Linux still is nowhere near ready to replace windows.

Speaking just for myself, there are 2 killer features missing.

And those two "killer features" are.... Wait! I used to know them...they're right here on the tip of my tongue! Yeah, it's been awhile, but sheesh! I should know these by heart! Uhhhh, let me get back to on that, 'K?

Re: Needless, wasteful churn (aided and abetted by less-than-helpful media types)

From the article:

However, while Windows 11 itself is not much of a carrot, the impending demise of Windows 10 is undoubtedly a stick, [...].

Hardware makers are, unsurprisingly, pretty happy about the impending demise of Windows 10.

"Demise"? As in, it will suddenly go away or stop working at Micros~1's whim and wish?? Not hardly (as legions of Reg commentards will happily attest). Yes, you may not have your work interrupted with Micros~1 suddenly deciding that now would be a really good time to summarily stop whatever you're doing and boot your machine to accept their latest pile of semi-functional drivel. But your machine, its contents, and, significantly, its OS, will continue to function quite nicely beyond October of 2025, thankyewverramuch!

_{And you, Richard -- shame on you for equating the end of Micros~1 "support" to an extinction-level event. I know that media types are somehow honor-bound to parrot manufacturer's drivel from time to time, but this is El Reg, dammit, and I'd have expected better.}

Re: Windows 11 itself is not much of a carrot

It would be nice if it were to be of use as something.

Burn its ISO image on to one (or more?) DVDs, and use them as coasters.