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Hah! Good one. Parent is clearly referring to Ada and the oft-quoted chapter 9 of NASA's Ada Style Guide (c. 1987).

The discussion of pitfalls surrounding Ada's task facility is eerily familiar to what you're reading in this thread 31 years later.

Hah! You must be in on another joke, because OP was referring to Rust ;)

> Rust is a systems programming language that runs blazingly fast, prevents segfaults, and guarantees thread safety.

www.rust-lang.org

edit: /s

Wooosh

Edit: I made this post, but I thought afterwards, what if you were you being dense on purpose, and I didn't get the joke?

I think this thread is a nice reminder that it's really helpful to use /s when you're using sarcasm in written form.

Isn't Pony the language where x / 0 == 0?

Yes but you can also have it be an error by doing x/?0 using the latest code on master.