On: Sorry, What's Going on Here?

[ChrisMarshallNY]

> Here you will find a collection of the brightest minds in the world

… Fighting fang, tooth, and claw, over critically important concepts, such as whether or not we should all be forced to use type-safe languages.

[exo-cortex → ChrisMarshallNY]

we should! We have laws against oil spills, we should have laws that prohibit languages with the singular purpose of making me point a gun to my foot and pull the trigger repeatedly.

/s

[krapp → exo-cortex]

You can have my footgun when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

[ChrisMarshallNY → krapp]

I think Stroustrup was quoted as saying something like "With C, you can shoot yourself in the foot, but with C++, you can blow your whole leg off."

[krapp → ChrisMarshallNY]

It does increment the number of barrels by one.