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[Nick Sabalausky]

On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:17:26 -0500
Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> On 1/21/13 2:01 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> > If I were a savvy businessman (read: no ethical fiber)
> 
> Now that came out of left field.
> 

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make by lifting that
(arbitrary?) part of my sentence out of its full intended context:

"[portion actually quoted here], I would manufacture a line of fire
alarms advertised as being 100% silent[...etc...]and sell them
exclusively to programmers."

The point, of course, being that preferring to forgo the safety and
static checks that a static language provides is comparable to
preferring silent fire alarms (Ie because they're both good things
to be explicitly warned about, and deliberately silencing them is
shortsighted and ill-advised). You seem to have latched on to some
insignificant detail there and misinterpreted it, though I'm not sure
exactly what or how.

You're not suggesting that trying to sell non-working fire alarms would
be *ethical* are you? I wouldn't think so, but I'm not really sure what
your point is.