[OT] unbelievable: #ifdef _OTHER_LIB_H

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 26 November 2014 at 21:02:20 UTC, H. S. Teoh via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 08:06:01PM +0000, Adam D. Ruppe via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> So my computer died on me again last week and I had to buy new
>> hardware. I was forced to update the software to run the new
>> hardware... and it is painful.
>
> I have a high distrust of brand new *hardware*, because they 
> inevitably
> are gratuitously incompatible with my current software and 
> require
> new-fangled OSes bloated with features I never use. Because of 
> this, I
> only ever upgrade once every 5 years (if not longer). And when 
> I do,
> I'll be sure to spend plenty of time researching what hardware 
> isn't
> horribly broken or requires a specific version of a specific OS 
> and
> doesn't work with anything else. Vendor lock-in is evil.
>
>
>> I hate all software and have learned that if I want a job done 
>> right,
>> I have to do it myself. Rarely, I find other people's software 
>> is OK
>> with some slight modifications, so I try to do that.
>
> 	I don't trust computers, I've spent too long programming to
> 	think that they can get anything right. -- James Miller
>
> :-)
>

I always find it amusing when people say "It was done with a 
computer, it must be correct!" Yeah, sure.