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by 1vuio0pswjnm7 363 days ago
"You can give someone a perfect programming language that produces bug-free programs, and they'll reject it because it uses curly-braces or some shit."

Ada does not have curly braces.

Stephen Bourne, author of the Bourne shell, used macros to make C memory unsafe language look like Algo 68 memory safe language.