Re: Why are mistakes so important? [Was: Re: Silent overriding of the command (reopened)

From: Les Cargill (lcargill_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 12/03/03

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    Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 14:30:10 GMT

    lvirden@yahoo.com wrote:
    >
    > According to Melissa Schrumpf <reverse-comDOTyahooATm_schrumpf@bogus.address>:
    > :Yes, that's what we need: a programming language where it's impossible to
    > :make mistakes.
    >
    > I really am confused why we would be arguing that a language should encourage
    > program crashes, data loss, security holes, and all the other mistakes
    > that developers make...
    >

    "Encourage" is not the negation of "makes it impossible". "Makes it
    possible" is much closer.

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