C being what it is lacks support for multiple return values, so the notion that it is meaningful to pass pointers to memory objects into which any ra… - Erik Naggum

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C being what it is lacks support for multiple return values, so the notion that it is meaningful to pass pointers to memory objects into which any random function may write random values without having a clue where they point, has not been debunked as the sheer idiocy it really is.

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Erik Naggum (June 13, 1965 – June 17, 2009) was a Lisp programmer.

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So pardon my cynical twist, but what are you doing with that 20,000×20,000 double-precision floating point matrix you say you need to invert today? If you answer "nutt'n, I jus kinda wondered what it'd be like, you know", you should be very happy that I am most likely more than 3000 miles away from you, or I would come over and slap you hard.

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