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> A C++ programmer, meanwhile, comes at things from a different perspective: code written by humans is buggy; [1] instead, as much as possible of the complexity
by dap 10y ago
> A C++ programmer, meanwhile, comes at things from a different perspective: code written by humans is buggy; [1] instead, as much as possible of the complexity should be shuffled to the compiler.
As though compilers aren't themselves written by humans.
When abstractions move into the language itself, it's harder to observe what's going on when they do something strange (even if it's correct) than if they were just some other library code in the same program.