On 1/21/2013 6:16 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
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.
I think he suggested the quote equated being a savvy businessman with having no
ethical fiber.
