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> Rustians disparage C

No, the 50+ years of ridiculously unavoidable memory corruption errors have done more to disparage C than anyone working in another language.

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I don't think C should be disparaged at all. Just because I prefer torx screws doesn't mean phillips screws were a horrible idea. They were brilliantly simple and enormously effective. I can't think of a single situation in which I wouldn't prefer torx, but torx wasn't an option historically and phillips was not the wrong decision at the time. Times change.

So should the tools.

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