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A comment on Memory Safe Languages in Android 13. Parent comment

Re:Memory Safe Languages in Android 13 by yosefk on Thursday December 01, 2022 @04:44PM (#33823290)
Dead - no, dying COBOL-style - quite possibly.
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Re:Memory Safe Languages in Android 13 by humanrebar on Friday December 02, 2022 @08:22AM (#33830102)
How much C and C++ do we have now? How much COBOL did we have at it's peak? I'm not sure the analogy holds for that reason alone.

What if the better analogy is updating building codes in Manhattan?

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