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What exactly is the point of this article? Despite its title it feels neither modest, nor like a good-faith attempt of a proposal. It more feels like a cheap snipe against the standards group, regurgitating the same tired points. Does anyone really believe that anything productive comes out of this?

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No, but perhaps if people keep regurgitating these same tired points, compiler developers will get bored of listening, and start to do something different.

As for the modesty, it's presumably a reference to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal

What is outrageous about this argument, which has been going on for far too long, is how people who don't get C or don't use it, keep dismissing critiques from expert practitioners like DJB or Torvalds and from academics like Regehr as if those people are all to damn stupid to understand the issues.

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