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As DJB and other excellent programmers have demonstrated, they're not strictly necessary either. (and I really like Rust)
by bronson 9y ago
As DJB and other excellent programmers have demonstrated, they're not strictly necessary either.
(and I really like Rust)
- SAI_Peregrinus 9y agoNot strictly necessary, but as the vast legions of merely adequate programmers have demonstrated they are practically necessary. They're necessary for scaling the number of programmers up.
- Nomentatus 9y agoThe sheer complexity of many of the systems we're building now really does make them necessary; so many programmers not just building but maintaining such complex systems over such long periods of time, now; the only way to be safe is to be safe. There was a time when good drivers argued that seatbelts weren't strictly necessary if you knew what you were doing in a car, so there shouldn't be laws insisting on them. So if by "strictly", you mean logically possible and sometimes within human ability; yeahbut we now just have to be more practical. No doubt I should have narrowed the scope of the first sentence of my first post; but I'll leave it for now.