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From: David Brown <git@davidb.org>
To: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Cc: Alex Unleashed <alex@flawedcode.org>, 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: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 23:25:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070923062527.GA8979@old.davidb.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070923020951.GF24423@planck.djpig.de>

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:
>> 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

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-23  6:26 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
2007-09-23  6:25           ` David Brown [this message]
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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