Peter Miller wrote: > > C offers you enough rope to hang yourself. > > C++ offers a fully equipped firing squad, a last cigarette and > > a blindfold. > > and better type safety that sh, tcl, php and a shit load of other > "advanced" make-the- type-up- at-run-time you-can-only-find- bugs-by- > customers-using- it-for- real-and- suing-you (that some simple compile > time static analysis would have found) scripting languages.
Thats why I'm so keen on O'Caml. It offers even more static analysis than C and C++. Its significantly more difficult to write bugs into an O'Caml program than a C or C++ program. > (Don't you just love Erik's language trolls?) They keep me entertained :-). Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "There are two kinds of large software systems: those that evolved from small systems and those that don't work." -- Seen on slashdot.org, then quoted by amk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
