"I told you not to. You're the ones who wiped my phone. You owe me money for destroying my personal property."

I'm not saying you would get a check courtesy of Uncle Sam for your troubles, but the argument that you deceived authorities into destroying evidence is a lot weaker.

I might go with "do not enter 696969" instead because the stranger fiddling with your phone probably expects a your phone to do something funny, like load a shock site.

California is full of degenerate freaks who do way worse shit like going on naked group bike rides in full public view.

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Bullies don't usually bully other people in front of their authority figures. Most "anti-bullying" policies in the past 25 years have the unintended consequence of fostering a more clever species of bully called the "crybully". People who are skilled at being assholes and manipulating authority figures into treating them as the victims.

In criminal law, increasing the odds of getting caught is statistically far more effective in decreasing the incidence of violent crime than increasing the punishment.

Other than that, I'm not particularly interested in the moralizing from either side about corporal punishment. Some problem children need mentorship, some just need consequences; most of it depends on their home life. Kids from abusive homes need to be moved to a safer environment and treated with therapy. Kids who are neglected or enabled by their parents need to learn that the world doesn't revolve around them and other people don't have to put up with their crap.

When the Packers upgrade their stadium and charge higher prices for tickets, I can promise you that they won't use the profits to buy back your shares or pay you a dividend.

"In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.""

-G.K. Chesterton

#1: What you consider a "language" is one with its own official runtime. By your logic, Javascript is not a language either because the interpreter is usually written in C++ (e.g. V8, spidermonkey).

#2: Dogfooding a compiler and a runtime is common practice because most people believe that it will help the makers of a language identify bugs in their implementation or identify undefined behavior in the very definition of their language. However, every language must bootstrap from another language: most languages bootstrapped from a compiler written in C. If you trace the lineage from compiler to compiler to ... compiler, you'll most likely find that the second C compiler ever written was written in C and the first compiler was written in some architecture's assembly language. The same still applies for the new, new language of C99 which is less than half the age of C. C is so mature that rooting out new undefined behaviors is no longer a significant concern.

#3: libc is not just a "language runtime", it's the interface into the OS kernel for most operating systems. The runtime for every "real language" as you describe it ultimately uses libc. It doesn't make sense to separate the functions in the C99 standard from the OS's own syscalls and special-purpose user land functions call C standard library functions, and C's standard library relies on the OS's special functions. If they were separate libraries, there would be a circular dependency.

Think of C not as "not a language" but as a language that serves the unusual purpose of being the foundation for nearly everything else.

You have a point on integer types being a mess, but we have stdint.h for that.

I don't normally call for people to get fired from their jobs, but this is so disgusting to anyone who takes even a modicum of pride in their contribution to society.

Surely, someone gets fired for dismissing a legitimate, easily exploited RCE using a simple plaintext HTTP MITM attack as a WONTFIX... Right???

From your reasoning, it also follows that using infix notation instead of Polish notation for arithmetic does absolutely nothing to lower the learning curve.

Just to clarify, I definitely wasn't saying "everything should be written in C" or even merely asking the question "why not just use C for game programming?". I don't even think requiring core utilities shipped with an OS, like sed and awk interpreters to be written in C is necessary, and I'm sure I'll be excommunicated for that elsewhere.

I was just making a more general comment about making a language look familiar in terms of basic grammar to minimize the time spent in the initial phase of the learning curve.

I completely understand wanting to go with some code that "looks like" python. More people know how to use Python than C, which is really only for embedded programmers and systems programmers.

Really, this is a nice game scripting language you have here. All the good languages were made by their author for their author.

I'm just talking the same level of C familiarity that Java or Javascript went with.

This is just one microcosm of the general pattern I'm picking on here, but what's up with this obsession with scoping via indentation like Python? It's true that it looks a little more like a todo list someone would write on a sticky note, but I don't think C syntax is the hard part of systems programming or video game programming, which is what the creator of the Tomo language does.

It just seems like these kind of design choices needlessly add a barrier to entry for people who want to climb aboard.

Then again one must of necessity, have a ferocious "Not Invented Here" streak to go through all the trouble of inventing a new programming language in 2025.

... And those little boxes of instant au gratin.

I suppose rooting for people to die doesn't sound barbarous, so long as you're not rooting for anyone in particular to die.

All they need is one classmate similar to most of us here on this site. Someone in their high school who will show them how to use a proxy or a VPN not for cred, not for reward, but just because "fuck it, why not?"