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Very fun but not true, https://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#IEEE https://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#IEEE
by lorenzotenti 5y ago
Very fun but not true, https://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#IEEE https://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#IEEE
- moffkalast 5y agoThat's exactly what he'd say though isn't it? The funny part about it is that one can never tell if it's true or not.
- alex_smart 5y ago"I wonder what would happen, if there were a language so complicated, so difficult to learn, that nobody would ever be able to swamp the market with programmers?" Why would anyone say that about a language they designed?
- moffkalast 5y agoI mean, writing shitty unmaintainable code for job security is not an uncommon thing, so this is the logical next step. Why not?
- alex_smart 5y agoI mean, duh.
- Typhon 5y agoI thought it would have been obvious to anyone that this is satire, but then again I know that it was explicitly presented as such the first time I read this text so I'm probably biased.
- taneq 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law Was the first thing I ctrl+f'd for, the second being 'satire' and here we are. Hi! :)