| C compilers have no artistry? I, for one, am plunged into a uplifting sense of ephemeral joy whenever I can get my code to finally compile after a long session grappling with incomprehensible error messages cited to lines in completely different files from the actual place where I forgot a semicolon.Indeed, GCC’s tendency towards verbosity when problems occur but reliance upon mere silence to indicate a successful compilation ought to be interpreted as a deeply introspective statement on the very nature of beauty; that it lies not in the presence of beautiful things but in the absence of that which offends the senses. |
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