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Mon, 06 Sep 2004

Why do SourceForge think C and C++ are the same thing?

I was reading somebody’s profile on SourceForge tonight and saw that he was listed as a wizard in a skill described as “C/C++”. What’s wrong with these people? Don’t they know that C and C++ are different things? I am certainly a wizard at C. As for C++, I’m ignorant—although the lowest category they have is “want to learn”, which certainly does not describe me. I feel really uncomfortable even having a developer account under an umbrella that is so opaque.

And why won’t Blosxom allow legal Unix file names to be used?