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Both lovers of C and its detractors should read the Turing award speech of Tony Hoare http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~engelen/courses/COP4610/hoare.pdf http://www.cs.fs
by shrubble 7y ago
Both lovers of C and its detractors should read the Turing award speech of Tony Hoare http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~engelen/courses/COP4610/hoare.pdf http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~engelen/courses/COP4610/hoare.pdf
- com 7y agoI found this an interesting and illuminating read, partially for how some of the basic concerns that we have for language tools like compilers were imagined into being and later internalised by us all, but also for the “fear and horror” around bounds checks.