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"To damage or impede one's own plans, progress, or actions through foolish actions or words." Learning C before Rust so you better understand Rust isn't "fooli
by Ensorceled 3y ago
"To damage or impede one's own plans, progress, or actions through foolish actions or words."
Learning C before Rust so you better understand Rust isn't "foolish action" nor does it "impede one's own plans".
I grow tired of authors twisting and abusing the meaning of common English idioms so the author can say "well actually some times you want to shoot yourself in the foot"
- g-w1 3y agoThe shooting yourself in the foot part is doing memory unsafe things in C where you get a segmentation fault that Rust would have stopped you from doing.
- thatjoeoverthr 3y agoI think what he means isn't the act of learning C first, but rather having the segfault.
- Ensorceled 3y agoSo, the foolish action was intentionally creating the segfault?