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From the creator's own mouth, it's a satire language, but all satire has a good point. Vigil's is many programmers' susceptibility to The Broken Window problem.
by aredington 14y ago
From the creator's own mouth, it's a satire language, but all satire has a good point. Vigil's is many programmers' susceptibility to The Broken Window problem. It's creation raises a good point about the usefulness of contracts in the absence of mechanisms for enforcing those contracts.
- discreteevent 14y agoI just read it as a satire on how ridiculous safety checking could be if taken to an extreme. In the same way that some dynamic language advocates think its hilarious that statically typed languages won't even let you run your program if there is a type error in case you might harm yourself by violating your own rules!