[Info-vax] VAX Macro to C conversion

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 7/10/19 1:21 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2019-07-10, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 7/9/19 10:37 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> makes it much easier to write code that result in bad runtime
>>> error than most other common languages of today.
>>
>> Do I really need to go on?  Stop blaming a language for the
>> incompetence of the programmer.
>>
> 
> Do you also operate power tools without the appropriate safety guards ?

Sometimes.  when the guard prevents me from doing a task that I need
to do.

> 
> I hope you have sufficient quantity of QuikClot/Celox, CATs and trauma
> bandages around if you do. :-)

Don't need them.  Removing a device that somebody else thought was for
safety (as opposed to protecting against stupidity) does not imply that
I put myself in danger or get hurt.  Good analogy, actually.  Do you
know why the slot on modern CD drives is so thin?  To keep people from
sticking their finger in to the drive and getting pinched. (I think we
have Europe to thank for that idiocy).  Funny, that.  I knew enough
not to stick my finger in in the first place.

bill