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jk4930 on March 31, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rust 0.2 released

From what I know in Europe, the military background was a relevant issue.

batista on March 31, 2012 [–]

In Europe maybe. In the US, hardly. We're talking early nineties, not the sixties. In the IT academia there were hardly any leftists that would oppose a language on the basis of it being used by the DoD.

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