Many years ago, someone tried to get me into cryptocurrencies. "They're the future of money!" they said. I replied saying that I'd rather wait until they were more useful, less volatile, easier to use, and utterly reliable. "You don't want to get left behind, do you?" They countered. That struck me as a bizarre sentiment. What is there to be left behind from? If BitCoin (or whatever) is going…
  • resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    C.

    I exaggerate a bit. C99 lets you declare variables anywhere inside the block, not just the top.

    Which still got me into an argument with a coworker who wanted me to declare every variable at the top of the block “in case” we port the code to a compiler that doesn’t support it.

    C99 was 20 years old at that point.

    Newer versions of C have generics “support” but I haven’t seen it in the wild yet.