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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ahh, the consequences of using the PDP-11 as your abstract machine.

I find C fun in small doses, but if I ever had to scale up to an actual product, I'd quickly want to off myself from copy-pasting my vector implementation for every different type it needs to contain.

(Of course, I could commit macro abuse to emulate generics, but... that's just asking for trouble.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well it made sense! In the 70s, and just doesn't anymore. 🤷