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Isn‘t FORTRAN also a ur-language? It was invented in 1957.

FORTRAN (1957), ALGOL (1958), and COBOL (1959) are similar.

Technically, FORTRAN is the oldest. One could argue that ALGOL is the most influential for language design.


"Not necessarily Rust — Go, Zig, and anything else with a real type system and compile-time checks gets the same tailwind. Rust just happens to have the strictest compiler and the most to gain when “strict” stops being a cost. "

You either have a strict compiler for your language or you have to write more tests for your code.


Tokens are the new "lines of code". In the 80s managers believed that the more lines of code a programmer produced, the better (s)he is. Nowadays managers believe the more tokens a programmer burns, the better (s)he is.

The outcome will be similar.


I recommend Deuter backpacks. German overengineering at its best. After ten years my backpack is still good as new.

Wordpress has always been a backdoor with and without plugins.

Again?

Is there a git command to find the developer who deleted the most lines of code? That is the best developer in the team.

Result: Both. The Wittgenstein Result. I don't know whether to be proud or concerned.

This is similar to Joseph Stalin who famously asked, "How many divisions does the Pope have?" to dismiss the Vatican's political and military influence.

What is going on in Vienna? First OpenClaw, now this tool. I see a lot of AI (Austrian Intelligence) recently.

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