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submitted 2 months ago by cm0002@lemmy.sdf.org to c/rust@programming.dev
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[-] ulterno@programming.dev 9 points 2 months ago

Guess if it were me in his place, Rust would never have been made.

I just love using stairs.

[-] busyvar@piaille.fr 5 points 2 months ago

@ulterno @cm0002 that's how they made assembly.

[-] Kissaki@programming.dev 6 points 2 months ago

That 10 years ago.

Looks like they weren't able to borrow a 'was' for the sentence.

[-] defolos_tech@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

So Hoare, sick of dragging himself up 21 flights of stairs every day, began designing a new computer language. He wanted to create a small, fast programming language without the potential for memory bugs.

Dude figured it'd work better to invent a new language than to fix the bugs in the software: gigachad move

this post was submitted on 21 May 2025
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