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> block scoped opt-out with cowboy-style manual memory management Is this a Walter Bright alt? I've seen him use the cowboy programmer term a few times on the

> block scoped opt-out with cowboy-style manual memory management Is this a Walter Bright alt? I've seen him use the cowboy programmer term a few times on the forum before.

arcadia_leak 8mo ago
Yeah, I just saw his posts too and picked up the term :)
keybored 8mo ago
It makes sense for someone who has read about D to pick up on Bright phrasing.
tmtvl 8mo ago
The term 'Cowboy coder' has been around for some time. Everybody's favourite unreliable source of knowledge has issues dating back to 2011: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy_coding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy_coding>
- pjmlp 8mo ago
  This was already a thing in Usenet days, an example from 1998 https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.lisp/c/tfzX3Sq96Xk/m/0opsc5Q8NfwJ https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.lisp/c/tfzX3Sq96Xk/m/0...