On Sunday, 14 May 2017 at 02:11:36 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
On Sunday, 14 May 2017 at 00:05:56 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:
(a) Trust the programmer.
I don't understand this point. C doesn't offer the programmer
much to work with. If you trust the programmer, shouldn't that
mean you provide a large set of tools and let them decide which
parts to use? C is pretty much "here are some pointers, go have
fun".
Hi - I think this point really is saying that the type system in
C is for convenience only - ultimately if you as a programmer
want to manipulate memory in a certain way then C assumes you
know what you are doing and why. As I said C is really a high
level assembler.
Regards
