truly painful that he actually made these words from his mouth
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I'm shocked Alan Kay never firebombed Bell Labs.
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Oh! The trick is to write good code instead of fragile code!!!


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if I were a programmer, I would simply be a good programmer who writes structurally-sound code
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In the wise words of the greatest computer programmer to ever live, Terry A Davis, "Do it like a white man." Hahahaha
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How does one even read this. “Don’t make mistakes and your code will be secure”? He later admits that memory safe languages can at least turn exploits into crashing bugs while simultaneously not seeming to acknowledge this as an benefit... ...didn’t Ken Thompson work on Go?
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Imagine a world where C started out exactly the same but all unions were tagged, “option”-al tagged unions were used in place of NULL pointers, and it supported slices instead of NUL byte-terminated “strings”
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No you are naive. Every dev goes through a cycle. Devs start out writing in the base language libraries, then they programming with the latest 3rd party libraries, then they return to phase 1 again, then they write their own lang and tools. U in phase 2, Thompson in phase 4
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