asciilifeform: 'it's not sexy. whaddayamean i have to specify thing'
asciilifeform: PeterL: but you'll find that much of what programmers actually object to in ada is precisely the good parts☟︎
asciilifeform: PeterL: sure, go make. we'll check again in 50 yrs.
asciilifeform: PeterL: it's ugly as sin, and originally usg-promulgated, but that doesn't change the facts.
asciilifeform: PeterL: there is precisely one such language in existence.
asciilifeform: PeterL: life-critical embedded systems must be written in a typesafe, bound-safe standardized language with hard-real time run (that means no garbage collection) and static memory alloc.
asciilifeform: sjsqd: what do you need the remaining people for ?
asciilifeform: sjsqd: once you understand the above, it will never occur to you to carry bitcoin on your person in the street, or spend it in a restaurant
asciilifeform: sjsqd: this is actually good fortune, that you've nowhere to blow it just yet
asciilifeform: and idiots are spending their coin as if it were toilet paper
asciilifeform: even though surface appearances may deceive
asciilifeform: sjsqd: try to understand why bitcoin is more analogous to diamonds or rembrandts than to the national currency you grew up with
asciilifeform: PeterL: article is full of retardation (e.g. 'immutability', 'optimize for novices', etc)
asciilifeform: for zoologists >> http://housejeffries.com/articles/unix-delenda-est << every month or so, i turn up a new lamer who read my articles but catastrophically failed to get the message. the ones who 'agree', like this specimen, are the worst kind.
