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Yes, in which he claims that all languages are equally good. In which case I assume he writes everything in assembler.
by abstractbill 16y ago
Yes, in which he claims that all languages are equally good. In which case I assume he writes everything in assembler.
- anthonyb 16y agoThat doesn't appear to be too far from the truth: "I spent those decades debugging the Frankenstein. In the OS crash debugger. In hex. Because wasn’t it oh so clever and efficient to build a radically new kind of database with extreme reliability requirements as a highly multithreaded kernel extension to the OS?"
- rbranson 16y ago... or Visual Basic... or COBOL... or any other language everyone has pretty much determined is awful.
- arethuza 16y agoThose languages merely aspire to true awfulness - for truly mind warping horror you need to see some in-house designed languages that I have seen that use XML as their starting point.