We need less powerful languages (2015)

Re:We need less powerful languages (2015) by alphanullmeric on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @06:49PM (#34619938)

There’s always rust if you want the compiler to tell you you’re not allowed to do something you were intending to do.

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Re:We need less powerful languages (2015) by bitwize on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @07:11PM (#34620164)

"If we submit ourselves to law, Alex, even to the loss of freedoms -- the freedom to indirect through an invalid pointer, for instance -- we may discover new freedoms yet unknown to us." --Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln (2012) (paraphrased)

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Re:We need less powerful languages (2015) by ggm on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @08:12PM (#34620675)

This is so good, I'm stealing it. Daniel Day Lewis didn't realise he was a C type language on a PDP type architecture.

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