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There have been people trying to enforce safer programming at the language level at least since Java positioned itself as the safer alternative to C++ way back
by School-Cotton 2y ago
There have been people trying to enforce safer programming at the language level at least since Java positioned itself as the safer alternative to C++ way back in the 90s.
- riffraff 2y agoI'm pretty sure Bertrand Meyer's OOSC[0] from 1988 had something like "if a language has a feature which comes with warnings that you shouldn't use it, it shouldn't have that feature" (paraphrasing). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-Oriented_Software_Construction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-Oriented_Software_Const...