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> block scoped opt-out with cowboy-style manual memory management

Is this a Walter Bright alt? I've seen him use the cowboy programmer term a few times on the forum before.

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The term 'Cowboy coder' has been around for some time. Everybody's favourite unreliable source of knowledge has issues dating back to 2011: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy_coding>

This was already a thing in Usenet days, an example from 1998

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.lisp/c/tfzX3Sq96Xk/m/0...


Yeah, I just saw his posts too and picked up the term :)

It makes sense for someone who has read about D to pick up on Bright phrasing.



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