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by zarzavat
30 days ago
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A programming language with a reference implementation is not a "monopoly", it's a standard. By having a common implementation to write code against we can avoid wasting time on pointless minutiae such as which features are portable in practice and which are not. When a programming language community fractures into multiple incompatible implementations everyone is worse off. |
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