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> Programmers’ expectations are not codified and do not need to be respected: international standards do. What if...stick with me...the standards sought to cod

• akira2501 3y ago
  Then using a language without a published standard is a fools errand.
  • TwentyPosts 3y ago
    No? How does that even follow? That a standard should codify common expectations insofar possible (without breaking rigor) is irrelevant to whether you "should" only use standardized languages or not.
    • akira2501 3y ago
      It's a statement of opinion. I think attempting to use a language without a standard causes problems that can be avoided by using one with a standard. As evidenced in this exact post, the author spent a fair amount of time trying to figure out if the nightly, devel or production versions of the complier were implicated. He wasn't even able to fully test a theory because he relied on a feature that wasn't even available in older compilers in a completely unrelated system. So, if you want to ignore these costs, that's fine, I'm not prescribing your actions for you, just sharing an opinion. Do you follow?
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