Re: [OT] Re: C++ *for Git*

On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 04:09:51AM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:

On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 12:50:00AM +0200, Alex Unleashed wrote:

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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...

I work with plenty of them :-)  It's all C.  All of the same things happen,
with management looking for magic bullets to solve problems caused by bad
programmers.

Dave