Were there any exploding capacitors? Those are always exciting.

She was a kick-ass Terminator, too.

I lived for a couple of years in Dugway, UT. Home of Dugway Proving Grounds, where chemical and incendiary weapons were developed and tested. There in the desert were "German Village" and "Japanese Village"; replica sites where the firebombs were optimized for civilian destruction. Disturbing stuff.

I got hooked via the local university's public access internet program in '93 or so. Dial-up Unix shell account with all the goodies: ftp, email, a usenet feed, gopher, and archie+veronica for search. Lots of MUDs. No WWW yet.

I remember when I first came across Strachey's lecture and realized just how much of our contemporary programming languages were built on this foundation. And even more if you consider Strachey's influence on the careers of others.

We've got a hen that stopped laying and started rooster behaviors too. Would be amazing if she switched back, but I'm not holding my breath!

I guess your hypothetical language may well pass everything by reference, but my point is that Rust is (more, but not completely) explicit about more than just mutability and the aspects tend to interact in interesting ways.

That takes an int by value and *copies* it to the destination (rather than moving it from the calling context, as would occur for types that are not `Copy` ); the local binding within the function is allowed to be mutated though.

You would want a mutable reference for your example, I think.

I'm not sure the kids these days even know who he is. Good to see you still keeping his name out there. ;)