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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: a new language, designed for safety !
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 21:10:58 +0100
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Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:

> On 2014-06-13, gvdschoot@gmail.com <gvdschoot@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Friday, June 13, 2014 3:16:38 PM UTC+2, Simon Wright wrote:
>>> gvds..@gmail.com writes:
>>> 
>>> > The thing is: The languages with more options will win. You see that
>>> > with the Rust vs Go people. Go is a language that is close to
>>> > Oberon-14, with very well thought simplicity. Rust on the other hand
>>> > is *the* C++ replacement and it has all the features that makes code
>>> > hard to understand. But because of all these features it attracts the
>>> > developers of today. Non-determinism is a very good thing
>                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>> 
>>> > IMO. Reasonability results in good code that is easy to maintain. But
>      ^^^^
>>> > we don't live in that world anymore.
>>> 
>>> I _hope_ you're being sarcastic.
>>
>> Why?
>
> I suspect Simon's reacting to the statement about non-determinism I've
> underlined. :-)

Yes, also Shark8's point.

You really don't want your car being driven, your medications dispensed,
or your finances managed by unpredictable bad code that's difficult to
maintain.