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> I've written a lot of C in the subsequent 20 years or so. It has some particularly nasty traps. Acknowledging that does not make me anti-C. depends on your c
by jcelerier 6y ago
> I've written a lot of C in the subsequent 20 years or so. It has some particularly nasty traps. Acknowledging that does not make me anti-C.
depends on your cultural background I guess. Some people see literally everything that is not 100% risk-free as inherently bad.
- pjc50 6y agoWell, possibly, but if you genuinely think that then you can never achieve anything other than complaining on message boards and hodling US treasury bonds. Everything has risks and it's a question of enumerating them and deciding how and whether to manage them.
- jcelerier 6y ago> if you genuinely think that then you can never achieve anything other than complaining on message boards and hodling US treasury bonds. I mean... yes. That's, like, most people.
- coldtea 6y agoIt doesn't have to be 100% for that to be right. If we can achieve a N% risk-free Python (without sacrificing other useful features), and we only have a M% risk-free Python (where M < N, or even M << N), then what we have is inherently bad.