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Comment Re: Ruby (Score 2) 349

C doesn't bring the massive volume of mess with it. It's simplicity is it's beauty. But the world's biggest C advocate wouldn't use it to implement server side web code, unless the only other choice was Javascript (then the smart move would be to quit your job).

What do you think Apache modules are? :) And before application servers existed the only ways to do anything with a web server besides serve static files were to do CGI, probably in Perl 4, or to write to the server API, both in C (at least back then). So server-side C code still exists, and even has its use cases (chiefly maximum performance).

Meanwhile, I wonder if all this server-side Javascript is stepping on the toes of the SSJS Netscape introduced on its server; there must be some patents lying around that someone owns....

Comment Re:OS/2 to be ported to AMD's ARM... (Score 1) 42

Yup, alas. The best things it still has are the object-oriented Workplace Shell and the patented "highlight everything I mouse over" (rather than a box lasso) technique, and I'm thinking the patent on the latter is nearing its expiration. Unfortunately, a lot of WPS code was Microsoft's, so it'll never see the light of day.

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