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>I wonder what the author means by "Survey says no true C programmer

I think he is being sarcastic. I.e. the idea that "no true C programmer" would write code like that is nonsense, since we have all seen C code like that. Therefore the idea that "no true Rust programmer" would write the Rust snippet is not a valid defence, because bad programmers gonna program.



Yes. It's an instance of the No True Scotsman Fallacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman




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