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Edit: my swiss friend Christian “bsolar” Apolloni brought this to my attention, so funny…

Replace “zombie” with “terrorist” and it will still be funny (if you don’t live in Iraq or Afghanistan).

A picture is worth a thousand words:

Can you find any way to escape?

This morning I was browsing Planet OpenSolaris when my attention was caught by a post talking about some really strange new language: it introduces the Vala language, a new high level language that «aims to bring modern programming language features to GNOME developers without imposing any additional runtime requirements and without using a different ABI compared to applications and libraries written in C».
So, let me resume what’s happening here: «hey, C is cool, a lot of people know it, we like it, we should definitely choose it as a base for our framework/DE, it doesn’t matter if C isn’t object oriented and we want to write object oriented code, we will find a way to put objects in C, maybe writing some framework and anyway g++ now just suck so C++ is not an option at all»
then after some years «hey, look at those Python/Perl/Ruby/C#/Java guys’ attitude, they are not happy if they don’t create some kind of weird wrapper to our marvellous code, what’s their problem? They can’t get a better API than the original API, let’s be serious, the original API is wrote in/for C and C is so cooool, they are wasting their time. Anyway, let’s take a look on their code… Uhm… well… actually… it isn’t so bad, there is no way that it could be better than the C api of course, but well, they had a couple of good points… ok maybe three or four good points… Maybe we should backport something to the core but doing that with C isn’t very confortable, we aren’t saying that C isn’t (or wasn’t) the better choice of course, there is no way we could say something so silly (C is so coooool) but we must find a way… g++ got quite good in the meanwhile but hey, C++ is C++, it has so many features, it will confuse our users for sure and it is so old, it can’t be cool-looking/new-fashioned/modern-elegant(/marketing-brain-wash-powered someone says: odd fools, there is no way we could fall for suck stupid tricks, as my iPhone can prove I think different!), we must find another way, maybe… a new language? Yeah, this appears quite reasonable: we are not betraying C at all because our compiler will translate the new language code to C code hiding the pain to write C code from our users! Our users will be able to write C but will not suffer anymore because they will not write C! So coooool!»