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Comment Re:Obj-C (Score 1) 316

You just quoted 106 characters to accomplish the following simple task:

print "Hello, World\n";

That's 23 characters to accomplish the same task, but the core issue isn't even really the character count alone. It's the verbosity combined with the requirement that an object be explicitly constructed to perform something that is a fundamentally procedural task.

So all of Java is garbage, because it is not enough like a scripting language?

You liking Python better is not a good enough reason for Java to be dismissed as trash, and it hardly justifies claiming it is worse than C++, of all the verbose garbage languages.

Try Groovy.

Comment Re: Angler PC malware? (Score 1) 122

No need. I have this newfangled feature called "sources.list."

That file barely tells you where the repositories are. The main question still remains, where did the programs actually come from, who compiled them, and why do you trust any of the parties involved?

I trust the Ubuntu repositories much more than any app store, but the principle is similar... they could conceivably contain malicious code.

Comment Re:Angler PC malware? (Score 1) 122

Well unless you have configured your *nix box to automatically privilege and run windows executables somehow, using a real OS is probably sufficient to stop this attack.

You are trying to say that users needing to type chmod +x ./latest_flash_player_youtube.sh , is sufficient protection to prevent end users from running things they shouldn't....

Ransomware is not prevalent in Linux, but again, it is absurdly naive to think that it couldn't, or that the OS is doing much to prevent it. Again, end user education is key, regardless of OS. Implying to under-informed users that OSX is magically secure against cryptoware, is a recipe for disaster.

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