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Re:Oak: A more portable alternative to C, powered by Brainfu... by isoprophlex on Sunday July 26, 2020 @09:06AM (#23956781)
> About the Author

> I'm a freshly minted highschool graduate and freshman in college looking for work.

Jesus fuck that's impressive. At that age my mind was on being bad at skateboarding, casual arson and trolling pre-2000 online places

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Re:Oak: A more portable alternative to C, powered by Brainfu... by algorithmsRcool on Sunday July 26, 2020 @02:15PM (#23958959)
I'm pretty astounded by his productivity!. This isn't even his first programming language.

https://github.com/adam-mcdaniel/free

https://github.com/adam-mcdaniel/xasm

https://github.com/adam-mcdaniel/tsar

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Re:Oak: A more portable alternative to C, powered by Brainfu... by Uptrenda on Sunday July 26, 2020 @02:49PM (#23959209)
Well said. His work seems to have some elegant ideas. Imagine what he will be doing when he's finished college. Some people are truly brilliant.
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Re:Oak: A more portable alternative to C, powered by Brainfu... by Tallasatree on Sunday July 26, 2020 @02:55PM (#23959258)
I suspect he'll be figuring out more new and unique ways to serve us ads.

edit: and that's no knock on this kids skills / talents!

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Re:Oak: A more portable alternative to C, powered by Brainfu... by mofosyne on Monday July 27, 2020 @10:45AM (#23965542)
Then it's on us to make sure that society can provide opportunities beyond putting the best minds of our generation into generating more clicks.
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Re:Oak: A more portable alternative to C, powered by Brainfu... by mhh__ on Monday July 27, 2020 @09:40AM (#23964970)
I was working on a compiler for money during my first weeks of university (last year) and if I'm being honest it nearly ruined my entire year because I was completely on the back foot socially.

Combine that with a catastrophic sleep problem and you're in a rough time, in my case.

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