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Re:Fil-C: A memory-safe C implementation by cryptonector on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @12:44PM (#45749435)
> > I don't know C++ that well, since I've only been using it for 35 years, which isn't nearly long enough to learn the whole language unless you write a compiler for it.

No one person could write a compiler for it, and even if they could they would forget as much in doing so as they could learn.

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Re:Fil-C: A memory-safe C implementation by kragen on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @02:08PM (#45750766)
Walter Bright did, although maybe C++ has gotten enough bigger since then that your statement has become true.
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