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Re:WTF Python: Exploring and understanding Python through su... by jcelerier on Thursday February 11, 2021 @08:54AM (#26101499)
> I've written a lot of C in the subsequent 20 years or so. It has some particularly nasty traps. Acknowledging that does not make me anti-C.

depends on your cultural background I guess. Some people see literally everything that is not 100% risk-free as inherently bad.

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Re:WTF Python: Exploring and understanding Python through su... by pjc50 on Thursday February 11, 2021 @11:30AM (#26103521)
Well, possibly, but if you genuinely think that then you can never achieve anything other than complaining on message boards and hodling US treasury bonds. Everything has risks and it's a question of enumerating them and deciding how and whether to manage them.
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Re:WTF Python: Exploring and understanding Python through su... by jcelerier on Thursday February 11, 2021 @02:35PM (#26106047)
> if you genuinely think that then you can never achieve anything other than complaining on message boards and hodling US treasury bonds.

I mean... yes. That's, like, most people.

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Re:WTF Python: Exploring and understanding Python through su... by coldtea on Friday February 12, 2021 @08:15AM (#26113267)
It doesn't have to be 100% for that to be right.

If we can achieve a N% risk-free Python (without sacrificing other useful features), and we only have a M% risk-free Python (where M < N, or even M << N), then what we have is inherently bad.

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