Re: [SLUG] Your top-ten linux desktop apps

[Erik de Castro Lopo <erikd-slug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Miller wrote:

> > C offers you enough rope to hang yourself.
> > C++ offers a fully equipped firing squad, a last cigarette and
> > a blindfold.
> 
> and better type safety that sh, tcl, php and a shit load of other
> "advanced" make-the- type-up- at-run-time you-can-only-find- bugs-by-
> customers-using- it-for- real-and- suing-you (that some simple compile
> time static analysis would have found) scripting languages.

Thats why I'm so keen on O'Caml. It offers even more static analysis
than C and C++. Its significantly more difficult to write bugs into
an O'Caml program than a C or C++ program.

> (Don't you just love Erik's language trolls?)

They keep me entertained :-).

Erik
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