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Re:Nvidia Security Team: “What if we just stopped using C?” by macintux on Monday November 07, 2022 @12:14PM (#33508773)
It’s fine to argue that the analogy is flawed (all of them are) or that it’s irrelevant, or simply wrong.

What this entire thread is about, however, is this highly charged response to what seemed like a straightforward analogy.

> Frankly getting your knickers in a knot is emotional - the people using C are doing so for pragmatic reasons, not emotion. > I do see comments like yours a lot - there's an emotional attachment and/or ego attached to the comment, so the argument against is very vociferous and, honestly, ugly[1].

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Re:Nvidia Security Team: “What if we just stopped using C?” by zamalek on Monday November 07, 2022 @01:15PM (#33509735)
At the end of the day it seems as though an emotional argument occurred in the eye of the beholder. This only adds even more credibility to the root comment.

A failed experiment with the Socratic method on my part.

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