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The best language a program to be written in is the original. Languages have conventions and best practices that aren’t portable. We could port COBOL to c and
by exabrial 1mo ago
The best language a program to be written in is the original.
Languages have conventions and best practices that aren’t portable.
We could port COBOL to c and do a crap ton of goto/jmps and make a
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- aka-rider 1mo agoOf course language concepts don't translate. My point is that one can translate the data flow to another language. You could imagine any program as input -> [blackbox] -> output. For example, same pixels rendered on the screen provided identical keyboard input. I propose a way to decompose the blackbox.