[Info-vax] VAX Macro to C conversion

[Dave Froble]

On 7/10/2019 2:14 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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.

Got to agree with Bill on this one.  But when necessary, there is a lot 
of thinking, and planning, and care taken.  Key word, "necessary".

>> 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.

I enjoyed the story of someone calling up the PC company and asking for 
a new coffee cup holder, since the one in the CD drive broke off.

Stupidity, ignorance, and Murphy.  Always with us.


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