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2026-05-10 10:22 UTC
@screwlisp@gamerplus.org @bagder@mastodon.social @kentpitman@climatejustice.social Very nice interview!
If there was no curl, we'd have to turn wget into a library, or just (system "wget URL") in all our code, with all the problems that has.
The demoscene did the same job as writing games did here, getting kids to learn how the machine works by doing something fun. I dunno anything similar now, which is why I promote retrocomputing so much. But very few of them learn ASM. We made & preserved too many games/demos!
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@mdhughes@appdot.net 2026-05-10 10:28
@screwlisp@gamerplus.org @bagder@mastodon.social @kentpitman@climatejustice.social I don't want to encourage use of Rust, but Lisp/Scheme/ML/Erlang/ANY less-dangerous base language is ultimately the best way to prevent security bugs: Fix array access once in language, instead of in every function of every program, etc. But I also don't think that'll happen for a lot of libraries, I've asserted before that C is a 10,000 year language. It's endemic in Human DNA now, like Herpes, all we can do is treat symptoms.