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discreteevent 3 days ago

You are not doing Rust any favours by arguing that code that may have memory safety issues is gibberish and something that could be associated with the IOCCC. Ramping something up to 11 makes it hard to take seriously.

You could write rust code with logic errors. I could write C with a memory leak that doesn't matter because of the context it runs in. Neither program is gibberish but one of them causes real problems.

AlotOfReading 3 days ago | parent [-]

I'm not making either of those arguments. I'm not even using IOCCC as a pejorative association. The comment you're responding to explicitly compares IOCCC code to poetry and Lewis Carroll. One thing I am saying is that most code isn't written for those kinds of purposes. I can't imagine that's a controversial statement though.

I'm open to suggestions on how to clarify things as you're the second comment to misunderstand it and I'm not sure how to better explain it.