What happens if I start the game and say WOLFENSTEIN?

Hey, so does gold-backed currency!

How do you know how much gold the government is holding? Ask them!

How do you know the government isn't lying? Ask this question loudly enough and meet people with guns!

That's why you should bank with private counterparties, not the government.

If you buy eg a gold ETF, you can ask all these questions without any guns coming out. You can also go and exchange them for physical gold whenever you feel like it. Without any guns coming out.

If they break their promises, you can sue them. Without any guns coming out.

> If they break their promises, you can sue them. Without any guns coming out.

Providing you and they are in a country who is prepared to use 'guns coming out' to enforce the outcome of said suing.

Private contracts are a lot more robustly enforced in most parts of the world than promises of the government.

You can also do jurisdiction shopping: many companies deliberately contract under eg London law instead of local law.

Welcome to "monopoly over violence" - it's only been around 12,000 years or so.

The problem with Go is that it's single-source. That used to be death, single-source; couldn't get contracts if you were the only one providing a technology. C is multiple-source; even if you limit yourself to modern OSS compilers there's GCC and Clang, each from an independent group.

The trend towards unstandardized languages that only exist as a single blessed implementation, as opposed to languages defined by an official standards document with multiple implementations that are all on the same footing, is definitely an artifact of the Internet era: You don't "need" a standard if everyone can get an implementation from the same development team, for some definition of "need" I suppose.

If your horizon is only 20 years, Go is likely reasonable. Google will probably still exist and not be an Oracle subsidiary or anything similarly nasty in that period. OTOH, you might have said the same thing about staid, stable old AT&T in 1981...

Google could still exist but add Go to killedbygoogle.com

> If your argument is that Caldera might not actually have the rights to UNIX in the first place to grant the license, that's fair.

Yeah, everyone knows Unix is owned by SCO, just like C++, Linux, and the look on your face, which is priceless.

(So help me, SCO claimed to own C++ at one point:

https://lwn.net/Articles/39227/

> C++ is one of the properties that SCO owns today and we frequently are approached by customers who wish to license C++ from us and we do charge for that. Those arrangements are done on a case-by-case basis with each customer and are not disclosed publicly. C++ licensing is currently part of SCO's SCOsource licensing program.

Maybe they claimed to own an implementation of C++ but it would be typical of them to claim to own the moon and sun and be sublicensing the stars to God.)

Direct link to downloadable paper:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12713542/

You know, writing code that doesn't leak memory is really not that hard.

There. I've debunked Java, Python, PHP, Perl, and Rust.

(Or maybe, just maybe, tools should make our lives easier.)

Ah, so we're back to koolefant:

https://x42.com/koolefant/

> If you are using Netscape(*) you will probably see the happy cow above. Internet Explorer-users on Windows and Mac, however, will see a dead flat elephant. And this is due to a strange browser-feature.

> (*) or MSIE for Solaris

Yes, Netscape and MSIE on Solaris. This goes back to the 1990s:

https://web.archive.org/web/19990222144857/http://x42.com/ko...

Possibly friendlier link:

https://old.reddit.com/r/longform/comments/1e8m5s1/the_250_b...

(old.reddit.com takes you to the old UI)

This would be more convincing if I hadn't lived through BSOD... I mean Windows 95.

Hey, they fixed the BSODs eventually. That screen's black now.

So it's still a BSOD!