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That excuse sounds like the guy in highschool who would have treated the girl so much better, but she was into assholes. If you are old enough to remember thos
by asguy 4y ago
That excuse sounds like the guy in highschool who would have treated the girl so much better, but she was into assholes.
If you are old enough to remember those days, then you remember COBOL, Algol, Fortran, Pascal, BASIC, Ada, Oberon, Lisp/Scheme, Forth, O’Caml etc. They’re all great languages, some still have their uses. There’s a reason all of the major operating systems have cores written in C/C++. It’s entirely because they’re pragmatic and “work”, and not some conspiracy.
Edit: although now that I write it, what if C/C++ was planted on earth by an alien intelligence in order to slow down the development of the human race.
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- WalterBright 4y ago> Thankfully governments have finally start paying attention regarding software liability. And we'll see a great slowdown in the software industry.
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- nickpp 4y agoA strong, competitive free market naturally selects what people value the most. Because there is no black and white - most decisions are tradeoffs between cost, difficulty, time, convenience, safety, functionality, and so on. Government regulations practically place an infinity price on selected characteristics. The result is less entrants in the market, less competition and naturally worse results across all parameters.
- pjmlp 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_at_Any_Speed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_at_Any_Speed
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