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Being European I'm under the opinion Europe is filled with delusion. We have no technology to show for and the insanity Europe is trying to force on innovators

• frank2 7y ago
  Many believe that one of the most important innovations of the last 10 years is the Rust programming language and in particular its borrow checker, which is the result of a long investigation by programming-languages designers into "linear" or "use-once" variables. The main inspiration for this long investigation was probably a paper published in 1987 by a French logic professor: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-linear/#Int https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-linear/#Int (I read many thousands of papers on programming-language design in the 10 years before 1987 and don't recall anyone investigating "use-once" variables or related ideas whereas soon after 1987 many designers were investigating that part of the "design space" and citing the French logic professor.) Also it was Scandinavian professors who invented object-oriented programming (via the language Simula in the late 1960s). So Europe remains more innovative than most of the world (and remains wealthier than most of the world as a result).