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Re:Introducing Swift by theseoafs on Monday June 02, 2014 @05:53PM (#7836710)
> It is unethical to continue writing code in non-memory-safe C or C-based languages, for any purpose. Period.

And since memory-safe languages are written in non-memory-safe languages (i.e. C and C++), writing code in them is unethical as well, right?

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Re:Introducing Swift by pjmlp on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @03:18AM (#7838531)
Well, most implementations of Ada, Oberon and Modula-2 compilers among many others were boostraped, no C code in sight.
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