Phlip schreef: > Nobody wrote: >> Writing robust software from the outset puts you at a competitive >> disadvantage to those who understand how the system works. > > And I, not my language, should pick and chose how to be rigorous. The > language > should not make the decision for me.
You can always easily make your program less rigorous than the language, but the reverse is generally very difficult. So a rigorous language gives you the choice, why a non-rigorous language does not. -- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. -- Isaac Asimov Roel Schroeven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list