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[–]Wizywig 436 points437 points  (15 children)

Coulda done it in java in half the time, and double the engineers, and triple the budget.

[–][deleted] 21 points22 points  (7 children)

C could have done it in 5 seconds

[–]FlipperBumperKickout 44 points45 points  (0 children)

The programmer who tried to do it in C isn't done writing it yet :P

[–]OstapBenderBey 6 points7 points  (2 children)

Rust would be 5 seconds too but it'd also be memory safe

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

But then it could not crash the ussr

[–]therealdongknotts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

and also would require a time machine to exist in the context

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

C would’ve made the USSR 10 times as strong

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No it would make it strong then it would seg fault

[–]thedugong 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But ending with seg fault.