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“… it’s just that in C++ and the like, you don’t trust anybody, and in CLOS you basically trust everybody. the practical result is that thieves and bums use C++
by mhd 16y ago
“… it’s just that in C++ and the like, you don’t trust anybody, and in CLOS you basically trust everybody. the practical result is that thieves and bums use C++ and nice people use CLOS.”
- dman 16y ago:) where is that quoted from ?
- mhd 16y agoErik Naggum[1], apparently in his "Capital letters are for conformists" phase. Apart from the satire aspect, I think the strictness of enforced contracts is a difference in mindset between Eiffel/C++/Java people and those coming from Lisp and other dynamic languages. [1]: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/07310c842fea847c?dmode=source&output=gplain http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/07310c842f...
- dman 16y agoThanks for the source.