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> There's a good case to be made for using better languages than C and C++ for large classes of software. Don't weaken it by making absurd claims. And this ide
by P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
> There's a good case to be made for using better languages than C and C++ for large classes of software. Don't weaken it by making absurd claims.
And this idea can be applied to so many things.
Seriously, very often things have enough downsides that you don't need to exaggerate things that are not downsides. You're actually weakening your side by doing so because if people cannot trust even that bit of honesty, why would they trust anything you say?
be trustworthy is the first rule in convincing others.