Ken Thompson on languages and safety
(from @peterseibel 's book, Coders at Work)pic.twitter.com/RfSsPCrUFo
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The next part of the interview asks that exact same question! I have to admit that I don't really understand Thompson's line of reasoningpic.twitter.com/o8tJwqnldx
I understand the literal argument that there are different types of bugs and that preventing one type doesn't necessarily prevent others.
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but I don't see why that means that we shouldn't use languages (or processes or whatever) that prevent some types of bugs
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