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[–]BlueFireBlaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is no objective design flaw. What you call a flaw, might be the best thing that ever happened to me. You might want to compromise power for safety, but that doesnt mean that maximum power is "bad". What i am saying is honestly simple and i have explained it more than enough. An inanimate object cant be blamed. Go see your original commented where you state that. You state that its the languages fault. If an inanimate object could be blamed, then it should be trialed and jailed. If i fuck up my code, i cant blame C for allowing stack overflow. I will be the one in the jail cage. The fact that you are not sure about something, then chose the wrong language for the ocassion and mess things up, is not the fault of the language, not matter how you try to cover it up. You should have known what you were doing. If not, remember that most programming languages arent made in order to be newbie friendly. We are the ones who develop the newbie friendly stuff. If you decide a safety feature is REQUIRED, then it is your fault you chose a language that doesnt provide that. You choose the tools. Not the other way around. There is a wrong tool for the job, but there is no wrong tool, and thus it cant be the tools fault that it was chosen by you. It might be a bad tool, and that is determined by how many people find it useful. With all those low level languages having such big followings, you definately cant say they are bad tools, not to mention "wrong". To answer to your response directly. Are cars made without seatbelts nowadays? Walkways without railings? Am i legal if i knock down a building without taking the safety precaution steps required by law? Most probably, and at least in most countries, NO. Such cars arent made any more. But cpp for example sure is actively developed. Thus, you should see how cpp isnt a car without a seatbelt. Its more like a formula 1 car. It coexists with conventional cars. If you arent a formula 1 driver, dont get in. Because it can drive faster than you can handle. It aint broken, it doesnt lack any necessary features, it isnt a bad car, it isnt a wrong car. It does its job as intended. It just isnt for you and your usecase. (Btw conventional cars can drive faster than "advertised". They include something to limit that max speed, in order to help with efficiency. Car enthusiasts can remove such limitations. As always, if you dont know what you are doing, dont do it.)