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Do What I Mean

Do What I Mean

Posted May 3, 2022 16:27 UTC (Tue) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167)
In reply to: DeVault: Announcing the Hare programming language by wtarreau
Parent article: DeVault: Announcing the Hare programming language

Rather than "let me use my processor and OS for the purpose they were built" what you actually seem to want, though you don't seem aware of it, is "Do What I Mean" which is not deliverable, hence why you're unsatisfied.

First of all you will need to write what you meant, if you can do that, compilers can produce programs that do what you wrote and you'll be satisfied. But most often unhappy C programmers find that they really struggle to write what they meant, and that's where the problem lies, because if you can't write what you meant, then a program which does what you wrote won't do what you meant and you'll be unhappy.


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