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David Gudeman (gudeman@arizona.edu) writes:
> >Why not trust the programmer to modularize and document
> >the code correctly?

In article <4265@enea.se>, sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:
> If we could trust programmers there would be no need for language
> of any higher level than C.

You mean machine language and front-panel switches.

The reason trustworthy programmers have occasional (:-) use for
languages at higher level than these is that it does save work to
have overloaded operators, polymorphic procedures, etc.  And it
saves work to give rules to the compiler once instead of using the
editor to copy code.  Even trustworthy fingertips sometimes hit
the wrong button.
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