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(2017) This always gets 0 comments or hundreds of comments. Some previous ones with more than a handful of comments: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34
by steveklabnik 3y ago
(2017)
This always gets 0 comments or hundreds of comments. Some previous ones with more than a handful of comments:
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34640233 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34640233
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26300199 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26300199
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19736214 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19736214
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15179188 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15179188
- tedunangst 3y agoEscaped the dupe detector because four months ago there was an extra slash in the url.
- Joker_vD 3y agoSome of those comments are pure hilarity: "C got popular because it turned out to be ideally suited for DOS. C could deal with near/far pointers. No other language could". Yes, C was very good at having two (or even three, "huge" being fully-normalized far pointers) completely differently sized kinds of pointers, without any proprietary extensions, absolutely, and it caused no problems whatsoever because C memory model indeed presupposes a segmented address space.