/prog/ - Bell Labs: Home of Worse is Better

Name: Anonymous 2013-08-20 15:17

Everything at Bell Labs is based on the Worse is Better principle.
Unix = Worse is Better Multics
No single level store, no CPU hot-swapping, no fine-grained memory protection, no multilevel security.
C = Worse is Better Algol 60
No nested functions, no downward funargs (pass void*), no call-by-name, null-terminated strings.
C++ = Worse is Better Simula/Algol 68
No GC, no new user-defined operators (bit shifts for I/O), no safe unions, no lambdas (until C++11), unsafe memory.
SML = Worse is Better ML
No typeclasses (eqtypes), no automatic functor instantiation, default int, value restriction.

Name: Anonymous 2013-08-20 15:22

/prog/ = Worse is Better /g/
No battlestation threads, no e/g/in memes, no /g/entoo

Name: Anonymous 2013-08-20 15:42

>>2
why do these people not like le /g/entoo memes? they're literally the most e/g/in thin/g/ ever conceived by le /g/entoomen XD

Name: Anonymous 2013-08-20 18:44

>>3
Back go /g/ ``please!''

Name: Anonymous 2013-08-20 18:56

>>1
C++ can be compiled with a GC by many major compilers

Name: Anonymous 2013-08-20 19:07

>>3
Because it's not funny, was never funny, and makes you look like a retard

Name: Anonymous 2013-08-20 19:38

>>4,6
You can't even interpret le and XD as irony marks?

Name: Anonymous 2013-08-20 19:53

>>7
Ironic shitposting is equal to shitposting.

Name: Anonymous 2013-08-21 4:35

Algol 60 seems great. Are there any good, maintained compilers for it?

Name: Anonymous 2013-08-21 5:23

>>9
http://www.gnu.org/software/marst/
Version 2.7 was released this year.

Name: Anonymous 2013-09-15 18:05

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Bell Labs: Home of Worse is Better

1 Name: Anonymous 2013-08-20 15:17

2 Name: Anonymous 2013-08-20 15:22

3 Name: Anonymous 2013-08-20 15:42

4 Name: Anonymous 2013-08-20 18:44

5 Name: Anonymous 2013-08-20 18:56

6 Name: Anonymous 2013-08-20 19:07

7 Name: Anonymous 2013-08-20 19:38

8 Name: Anonymous 2013-08-20 19:53

9 Name: Anonymous 2013-08-21 4:35

10 Name: Anonymous 2013-08-21 5:23

11 Name: Anonymous 2013-09-15 18:05