From: Frank Lichtenheld Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 02:09:51 GMT Subject: Re: [OT] Re: C++ *for Git* Message-ID: <20070923020951.GF24423@planck.djpig.de> In-Reply-To: <5e4707340709221550o6d0a6062qd51c16a278727c29@mail.gmail.com> On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 12:50:00AM +0200, Alex Unleashed wrote: > I'd say being forced to be explicit is a good thing here, so that the > programmer at least has some sort of good understanding of what is > going on, and chances are that if he doesn't really know, things just > won't work out (quite unlike a lot of other languages where this > programmer might actually end up with something half-assed that > "mostly" works). > For some reason it seems to me a lot harder to find bad programmers > surviving using C than a lot of the other languages. Idiot-proofness-by-complexity is a myth IMHO. Idiots can be quite persistent... Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld www: http://www.djpig.de/