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Re:The Hare programming language by AnimalMuppet on Monday April 25, 2022 @12:44PM (#31157405)
> "How would I trust the programmers who implement compilers that they are not goin to make any mistakes? I'll write the assembly myself, thank you very much."

Nope, doesn't work. Then you have to trust that the programmer who wrote the assembler didn't make any mistakes. Real programmers program in octal.

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Re:The Hare programming language by astrange on Monday April 25, 2022 @07:56PM (#31162399)
> Then you have to trust that the programmer who wrote the assembler didn't make any mistakes.

This is true, but the actual solution is safer assembly. ARM is heading in this direction with PAC/BTI/CHERI. Intel, being Intel, tried adding some and it was so broken they removed it again.

It could go much further.

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