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by buserror 3373 days ago
No amount of 'type safety' will prevent idiots from being idiots, and with all the other languages, the problem is very often sitting on the chair. People will screw up creatively in any language, and trying to 'hide' that behind a language runtime overhead is idiotic. The good thing with C is that it will catch the worst idiots quickly, so you know not to hire them to write avionics for you.

What is NOT idiotic iswhat you discribe as 'ridiculous amount of verification' as it's often the only thing that will really work to catch mistakes.
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fiedzia 3373 days ago
> No amount of 'type safety' will prevent idiots from being idiots

But it will limit the damage they do considerably. Having bit of space or trees between lanes on a road saves a lot of lives, even if people drive as idiotically as they would without it.

> What is NOT idiotic is what you discribe as 'ridiculous amount of verification'

Designing systems that rely only on that is idiotic when there are better options.

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