Article discussing Go, could well be D

[Daniel Gibson]

Am 09.06.2011 07:43, schrieb Nick Sabalausky:
> "Robert Clipsham" <robert at octarineparrot.com> wrote in message 
> news:isovbb$20ea$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> On 08/06/2011 22:46, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>> "Walter Bright"<newshound2 at digitalmars.com>  wrote in message
>>> news:isopmf$1lov$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>>> On 6/8/2011 1:12 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>>>> But yea, maybe I will go ahead and just do it...
>>>>
>>>> I think it's important that you do.
>>>
>>> Hmm, well, I'm trying, but this time I can't even get the "register" link 
>>> to
>>> work at all.  I turn on JS, reload, it sits there "loading" for about 
>>> three
>>> minutes (as opposed to a few seconds without JS), and after all that,
>>> clicking the "register" link still doesn't do anything at all.
>>>
>>> Seriously, how completely incompetent do they have to be to screw up
>>> something as incredibly basic as a link? Bunch of morons over there.
>>>
>>> Meh, maybe when someone makes a reddit alternative that actually fucking
>>> works I'll use it...
>>
>> To be fair, they probably don't test in Firefox 2 any more, given that 
>> there have been numerous releases since and it's now unsupported.
>>
> 
> 1. It's a link for fuck's sake. It doesn't take IE9/Opera11/FF4 for a 
> trivial damn <a href="...">...</a> to work properly. The fucking things have 
> worked *exactly the same* since Mosaic (save for the "frame" extensions that 
> nobody should ever use anyway). There *is no* cross-browser testing needed 
> to get it right. There's barely any *thinking* needed to get it right. I 
> could teach my sister to get it right.
> 
> 2. If Mozilla ever decides to put out a successor to FF2 that isn't shit, 
> and actually *does* follow the "customizability" that they constantly 
> *pretend* to have, then I'll happily upgrade.
> 
> Besides, every time I come across some self-important asshole of a site that 
> feels it's their duty to try to tell me what fucking browser I should be 
> using, it makes me want to stick with FF2 that much more. They're so anxious 
> to cram half-assed under-engineered so-called-"technologies" down my throat? 
> Well then fuck them. I'd go back to FF1 if I thought doing so would give 
> them a hard time. (At least it looks nicer out-of-the-box without having to 
> install winestripe.)
> 
> It's not my fault everyone insists on making their software worse with each 
> release.
> 

I thought you were switching to Arora?
FF2 is not just outdated and incompatible with some websites, it's not
maintained anymore (since 2008 I think) and most probably contains known
(and actively exploited) security holes (some of them may even work with
JS disabled).

Cheers,
- Daniel