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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The sentence should scale with the crime. Nonviolent burglars and minor frauds could be taught Python, more serious crimes could get Go, whereas the most depraved offenders could be sentenced to C++

[–] hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Not envious of that serial killer having to decide between Assembly and Haskell

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Reoffenders get J

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The real reason Hannibal Lecter broke out was he had to write Clojure in Notepad

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 3 points 1 week ago

One of guys that retired wrote all his code in notepad. He also did debugging by printing all the code on paper. Like wtf there are other options!

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 5 points 1 week ago

Haskell would be reserved for drug offenders

[–] heavydust@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

They have to maintain the code of the ReiserFS project.