It is possible to foreclose on some kinds of error entirely, and if you compare like-for-like, those benefits become obvious. If, on the other hand, you take th

It is possible to foreclose on some kinds of error entirely, and if you compare like-for-like, those benefits become obvious. If, on the other hand, you take the productivity gains of a higher-level language as a reason to write more ambitious programs, well, new functionality can find new problems.