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Boosted by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
lifning@snoot.tube ("liffy 💜") wrote:
Many of us have now heard of Rust's "Graydon Hoare being upset at a broken embedded system in an elevator" origin story, but not many younger programmers know that C++ was invented by Bjarne Stroustrup after he forgot to null-terminate his legs while putting his shoes on one day and had to deal with the aftermath.
