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by voidnullnil 1816 days ago
How many programmers do you know put locks around polling varibles for seemingly no reason (as they are not cognizant of the memory model)?
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Well, while it may appear gatekeeping, maybe those dilettante developers should be using something else instead, like BASIC?
CPython has a pleasant memory model from what I've heard :)
Aha. The other day you were arguing for education as a silver bullet /g
Were I?

So here is my argument, maybe those developers should bother to actually learn about what they are trying to do in first place.