On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:17:26 -0500 Andrei Alexandrescu <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 1/21/13 2:01 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > > If I were a savvy businessman (read: no ethical fiber) > > Now that came out of left field. > I'm not sure what point you're trying to make by lifting that (arbitrary?) part of my sentence out of its full intended context: "[portion actually quoted here], I would manufacture a line of fire alarms advertised as being 100% silent[...etc...]and sell them exclusively to programmers." The point, of course, being that preferring to forgo the safety and static checks that a static language provides is comparable to preferring silent fire alarms (Ie because they're both good things to be explicitly warned about, and deliberately silencing them is shortsighted and ill-advised). You seem to have latched on to some insignificant detail there and misinterpreted it, though I'm not sure exactly what or how. You're not suggesting that trying to sell non-working fire alarms would be *ethical* are you? I wouldn't think so, but I'm not really sure what your point is.
