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Re:Haskell's Children by steveklabnik on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @02:27PM (#24570266)
You can think of it as kind of the inverse of leaks; if fixing a leak is "hey, this isn't used anymore, let's clean it up," fixing memory safety is "hey, this is still used, don't free it yet!"

Does that make sense?

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Re:Haskell's Children by bogomipz on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @05:27PM (#24572271)
Yes both of these responses were helpful. Cheers.
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