[neilv]

I suppose it might be more normal for C and C++ programmers to get in the habit of meticulous thinking through the code as we write it, since that's more a necessity than in most other languages. (If we're not careful, we risk having to pay with painful debugging sessions, and expensive correctness/stability/security problems.)

But meticulous coding is still useful for nontrivial code in any language that we want to work well. And it's not that hard; it's just something we practice and get better at over time.