"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Here the problem is more philosophical than anything else. Python's
> philosophy is that most programmers are responsible and normally
> intelligent, so treating them all like retarted dummies because
> someone might one day do something stupid is just wasting everyone's
> time. This is also why there's no language-enforced access
> restriction, only a simple stupid convention to denote implementation
> stuff from API. The fact is that it JustWork.
Additional Principles for C1X (new)
...
12. Trust the programmer, as a goal, is outdated in respect to the
security and safety programming communities. While it should not
be totally disregarded as a facet of the spirit of C, the
C1X version of the C Standard should take into account that
programmers need the ability to check their work.
C - The C1X Charter
Document: WG14 N1250, p. 3
http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n1250.pdf
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