Path: utzoo!censor!becker!bdb
From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: What is B&D? (Re: Bondage and Discipline Languages)
Message-ID: <239@becker.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jan 89 19:36:15 GMT
References: <4265@enea.se>
Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
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In article <4265@enea.se> sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:
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|David Gudeman (gudeman@arizona.edu) writes:
|>Why not trust the programmer to modularize and document
|>the code correctly?
|
|If we could trust programmers there would be no need for language
|of any higher level than C.
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	The point of high-level languages is that they relieve the
	burden from programmers so that they are no longer required
	to implement specifications in such tiny, incredibly detailed
	steps.

	That way programmers don't need to be mistrusted to make
	as many low-level mistakes. They have the ability to
	work at a larger conceptual scale thereby, allowing
	mistakes to take on a more global character.
	This affects others more directly and is therefore
	more likely to demand solution earlier on...

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|Erland Sommarskog
|ENEA Data, Stockholm              This signature is not to be quoted.
|sommar@enea.se
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