Fantastic exchange from DConf

[Dibyendu Majumdar via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 14 May 2017 at 02:11:36 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> On Sunday, 14 May 2017 at 00:05:56 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:
>
>> (a) Trust the programmer.
>
> I don't understand this point. C doesn't offer the programmer 
> much to work with. If you trust the programmer, shouldn't that 
> mean you provide a large set of tools and let them decide which 
> parts to use? C is pretty much "here are some pointers, go have 
> fun".

Hi - I think this point really is saying that the type system in 
C is for convenience only - ultimately if you as a programmer 
want to manipulate memory in a certain way then C assumes you 
know what you are doing and why. As I said C is really a high 
level assembler.

Regards