[Info-vax] Rust as a HS language, was: Re: Quiet?

[Dave Froble]

On 4/7/2022 10:59 AM, Dan Cross wrote:
> In article <t2l9jp$b8i$1 at gioia.aioe.org>,
> chris  <chris-nospam at tridac.net> wrote:
>> On 04/06/22 01:25, Dan Cross wrote:
>> This sounds like medication to cure everyone from their sloppy
>> programming. The infantilisation of complex subjects, just to give the
>> lazy an easier time, while still getting the product built.
>> The answer to that is not languages that constrain movement, but
>> developing more professional skills and applying due diligence
>> and attention to detail to system design and implementation.
>>
>> I must be getting old, so what happened to pursuit of excellence
>> and more ?...
>
> Excellent practitioners curate their tools and select the ones
> that give them the best chance of maximizing the effectiveness
> of their work products.  Ego driven machismo and disdain for
> tooling that helps prevent defects is a sign of an amateurish
> attitude towards software development, not that of a
> professional, let alone an engineer.
>
> 	- Dan C.
>

Perhaps "excellent practitioners" choose to stick with what they know and are 
competent with so as to avoid mistakes with something "new and better".

I have caught some flack from some here for choosing to not always declare 
variables.  I feel that such a practice is safe, if care and tools to verify 
some things are in use.  The opinions of others are just that, opinions, and 
subjective.

I do find that the better the definition of the task, the fewer mistakes occur.

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