Type safety could prevent nuclear war

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 2/4/2016 3:10 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> The C preprocessor accepts all sorts of nasty, nonsensical things.

The preprocessor makes C++ into an inherently unreliable, unsafe programming 
language. I've talked to some C++ committee members about this, about why there 
is no push to rid (at least deprecate) all use of the preprocessor. The general 
reaction I get is it is unimportant to do so.