Wow. I'm well aware of the "don't feed the troll" rules, but I'll reply this one time.

You sound like you were foaming at the mouth and punching the keyboard while typing these responses. Relax, it's just an internet forum - nothing's worth that amount of anger.

Also, re-read those posts if you like because there's a lesson in there. That guy was wrong, I explained why he was wrong, he didn't pay attention and said something that showed he hadn't understood what I'd said so I gave up. If people aren't interested in what you have to say, then don't worry about it - just leave them to it. I suggest you do the same in future, instead of bursting a blood vessel over it.

Life's too short to let the ramblings of random strangers get to you, so just have a drink or a smoke or whatever you like to do to calm the fuck down before you hurt yourself. Losing your temper just makes you look like a dick and destroys your credibility in any debate.

I won't be replying again, so don't waste your time with a response.

I wrote one. It's a simple inetd-based process forking webserver in C (see inetdxtra). It uses about 80kb per process, is scalable (and obviously memory protected using separate processes for both responses and CGI) and was designed for embedded hardware. It supports CGI, so you can write pages in C, Perl, PHP, Java, or anything that can use stdio and read environment variables.

Lots of people must have written webservers like this, I have no idea why slashdot consider this newsworthy.

Did you even read what you linked to?

(a) Copyright protection subsists, in accordance with this title, in original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression, now known or later developed, from which they can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device. Works of authorship include the following categories:

It then even goes on to say:

(b) In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work.

How does that contradict what I said?

I would create two monstrous supercomputers. The first would create musical melodies based on the number of notes required by copyright statutes to qualify as unique; the idea being to try and copyright all possibilities of note/time combinations for that level of uniqueness through brute force computing over time.

Except you can't copyright music and melodies.

You can copyright lyrics and you can copyright sheet music (as both are written works). Copyright covers the expression of an idea, not the idea itself. That's why recordings of songs get copyright protection, but not the songs themselves. People seem to have forgotten this somewhere along the way, or recording companies would try and have us think otherwise.

On the other hand, Visual C++ still has the most reliable C++ code completion of all IDEs that I've seen, and it's got even better in VS2010.

I don't know what you're doing with it then, but as someone paid to write C++ all day every day with VS2008, I can hand on heart say that the C++ code completion in VS2008 is fucking awful. It kills my dual core CPU updating the intellisense database frequently (ok, I'm working on a large project made up of about 140 modules), then fails to find globals and class members quite often in the same file.

Most times it's only about as useful as grep, but even then manages to be worse since it gives no priority to context - if I have two global variables in two different modules with the same name and ask for the definition in one module, it will quite often open a source file in the other module.

When testing alternatives, I found eclipse-cpp and netbeans-cpp to be far superior at C++ code completion. Unfortunately, I work for an American corporate who "standardise" on Microsoft products :-(