Comments by "⃠" (@U20E0) on "NDC Conferences" channel.

  1. i don’t think being invented by a United States US admiral is a good thing for a programming language, and i’m pretty sure the only reason they use COBOL is that re-writing it has a high probability of introducing a heap of bugs, which is not a risk you can take in the financial industry.
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  2. i think parsing HTML with regular expressions is mathematically impossible
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  3. Memory management could be more hell: There is a reference counting but it only does half of the job. You need to manually increment the counter. If you forget, you now have a use-after-free but without the free. (no errors, of course). And if you over-increment it, you have a leak. And of course a few functions in the standard library mishandle the counter under some very odd circumstances.
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