Rouille – Rust Programming, in French

Re:Rouille – Rust Programming, in French by KineticLensman on Friday October 31, 2025 @06:44AM (#45770534)

(Brit here) My first encounter with a foreign PL was a French Prolog implementation in the mid 80s whose only compiler error message was IIRC something like 'Erreur syntactique'. This seemed superbly Gallic, if somewhat less than helpful.

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Re:Rouille – Rust Programming, in French by didgeoridoo on Friday October 31, 2025 @07:49AM (#45770990)

Two of the best things I learned in French class (which was basically “Parisian culture of 1982” class) was that “impossible” in French meant “I don’t feel like it”, and if someone shrugged in a way where the edges of their mouth touched the top of their shoulders, you were shit out of luck with whatever you were asking for.

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Re:Rouille – Rust Programming, in French by KineticLensman on Friday October 31, 2025 @08:19AM (#45771220)

Off-topic but that reminds me of the quote from "Stand on Zanzibar" where 'impossible' is defined as IIRC "1) I can't be bothered or 2) I don't approve or 3) God can't be bothered"

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