From: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
To: Alex Unleashed <alex@flawedcode.org>
Cc: Kyle Rose <krose@krose.org>, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>,
Dmitry Kakurin <dmitry.kakurin@gmail.com>,
Git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: C++ *for Git*
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 04:09:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070923020951.GF24423@planck.djpig.de> (raw)
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 <frank@lichtenheld.de>
www: http://www.djpig.de/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-23 2:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-22 10:42 C++ *for Git* Dmitry Kakurin
2007-09-22 11:11 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-22 12:48 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-22 15:23 ` Marco Costalba
2007-09-23 4:54 ` Dmitry Kakurin
2007-09-22 15:15 ` Kyle Rose
2007-09-22 18:08 ` Miles Bader
2007-09-22 18:25 ` [OT] " Kyle Rose
2007-09-22 19:11 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-22 22:50 ` Alex Unleashed
2007-09-23 2:09 ` Frank Lichtenheld [this message]
2007-09-23 6:25 ` David Brown
2007-09-23 7:23 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-23 9:29 ` Marco Costalba
2007-09-23 9:42 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-23 9:50 ` Marco Costalba
2007-09-23 10:45 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-23 13:42 ` Marco Costalba
2007-09-23 14:23 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-09-23 14:45 ` Marco Costalba
2007-09-23 14:37 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-23 15:15 ` Marco Costalba
2007-09-23 17:49 ` Paul Franz
2007-09-23 16:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-09-23 18:05 ` Marco Costalba
2007-09-23 18:30 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-23 18:43 ` Marco Costalba
2007-09-23 19:11 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-23 21:22 ` Dmitry Potapov
2007-09-23 21:31 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-23 23:10 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-09-23 22:25 ` Reece Dunn
2007-09-24 10:46 ` Dmitry Potapov
2007-09-22 22:24 ` Martin Langhoff
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