[HN Gopher] Motto: Unsafe languages allow mostly-safe implementa...
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       Motto: Unsafe languages allow mostly-safe implementations
        
       Author : asdftemp
       Score  : 31 points
       Date   : 2022-11-07 17:07 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | twotwotwo wrote:
       | Title change? The linked content is fine but the submitted title
       | ("Motto: Unsafe languages allow mostly-safe implementations")
       | doesn't appear anywhere in it.
        
         | asdftemp wrote:
         | sorry about the misleading title choice; it's quoted from the
         | author's homepage in reference to this work:
         | https://www.humprog.org/~stephen/
         | 
         | also, could be marked [2017]
        
         | cryptonector wrote:
         | Yes please. The submitted title is very opinionated (even if it
         | states a derisory opinion that I agree with) and it hides the
         | utility of TFA.
         | 
         | TFA's title is `libcrunch: run-time type- and bounds-checking
         | for C (and maybe other languages...)`, which is plenty useful
         | enough, and also useful enough for me to immediately form an
         | opinion like submitter's.
        
           | nerdponx wrote:
           | "libcrunch: run-time type- and bounds-checking for C" seems
           | like a good title.
        
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