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
4 Comments
ulterno@programming.dev · 8 pts · 1y
Guess if it were me in his place, Rust would never have been made.
I just love using stairs.
busyvar@piaille.fr · 4 pts · 1y
@ulterno @cm0002 that's how they made assembly.
Kissaki@programming.dev · 6 pts · 1y
Looks like they weren't able to borrow a 'was' for the sentence.
defolos_tech@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Dude figured it'd work better to invent a new language than to fix the bugs in the software: gigachad move