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pjmlp ◴[] No.43674470[source]
Except he missed the part where Modula-2 was made available in 1978, exactly to fix all the original issues with standard Pascal, everything that he complains about, minus type safety.

The thing we are still trying to add back into C, 50 years later.

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1. zombot ◴[] No.43678553[source]
And C++. While it does have slightly better types than C, I can still apply functions that the compiler doesn't even warn me about and that crash my program at runtime. If I'm lucky. When the phase of the Moon is adversarial, my program continues running in a corrupt state.