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		Dewie3 on May 24, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rust Programming Language Book And for my part, I'm glad that I will probably be able to read about higher-level[1] system programming concepts like custom allocators eventually, without having to grok C++. [1] C isn't really crazy on the generic/meta-programming compared to C++, it seems.

pjmlp on May 24, 2015 [–]

> C isn't really crazy on the generic/meta-programming compared to C++, it seems.

C was already the Go of its generation(Mesa, Algol 68, CLU,PL/I, PL/M) so, yeah.

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