

In about an hour or two i imanaged to develop a simple proof of concept sample: takes a script in and identifies and outputs all commands while ignoring things that aren't between "". I've recently started coaching someone in C as a solution to their web-development problem (they feel they have to constantly keep learning the new technologies, so I have them learning how to make CGI bins and i'm considering making my own language like PHP, except with alot less going on since, well, really all anyone wants, it seems, is input sanitization and some common features like logins and databae management. I keep running into devs with similar opinions (minus the C). Coding things from scratch or almost from scratch is far, far easier and more reliable than hoping to God crucial parts of my program aren't deprecated before i'm even done making it (especially if i don't develop full-time). Due to all this hell, i've largely abandoned C++ development and moved to C. Especialyl with systems like windows that don't have dependency management. The reason these runtimes are distributed is because, well, if you don't, you could actually run into a system that doesn't have them. Kohlrak: That, and dynamic linking is one of those ideas that's really, really good in theory, but the deprecation hell we're seeing since the common adoption of java has made it almost like developing for DOS.
