🚀 go-pugleaf

In <810231583snz@soliton.demon.co.uk>, Ian Cargill <ian@soliton.demon.co.uk> writes:

>it is maximum protection from others that I seek.  :-)

You can't protect an idiot from himself. <g>  The only real cure is
death (to paraphrase Heinlein) and that is outside of language
definition issues.

>Unfortunately, I have come across far too many allegedly 'professional' 
>programmers who are little better than the average amateur.

In this case the job market can sort them out.  You should not make a
language harder to user and more error prone (which is true in spades
for people like that) simply to make recovery from editing mistakes a
bit easier.

Pain teaches.  Once you have lost a 10,000 line program becuase you
failed to archive, you WILL become religous about it.  Not much else
is very effective for the dense.

Michael Lee Finney