> You speak as though programmers scampering off for library functions to do everything is a bad thing. I consider it a wonderful thing. No, that's not what th

> You speak as though programmers scampering off for library functions to do everything is a bad thing. I consider it a wonderful thing. No, that's not what they are saying. They're just saying that to blame the representation for user mistakes and then present an alternative representation where user mistakes are prevented by library functions is comparing apples to oranges.