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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!jimad
- From: jimad@microsoft.com (Jim Adcock)
- Subject: Re: Give me safe C++
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.222322.7361@microsoft.com>
- Date: 11 Dec 92 22:23:22 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Dec3.193006.5520@almserv.uucp> <1992Dec6.131757.7448@ucc.su.OZ.AU> <716@ulogic.UUCP>
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- In article <716@ulogic.UUCP> hartman@ulogic.UUCP (Richard M. Hartman) writes:
- |the cry comes "oh powers that be, protect us from ourselves", and thus
- |we get laws requiring people to wear seatbelts. It is no that
- |I am against seatbelts (or safety), but I was perfectly capable
- |of wearing a seatbelt before the law existed.
-
- To warp your analogy just a little bit, I am reminded of the rental car
- I was stuck with recently that "automatically" -- in the name of "safety"
- presented a motorized shoulder harness across my neck every time I tried
- to climb in or out of the car. Meanwhile, while I was automagically getting
- strangled, there was no equivalent mechanism to connect the seatbelt,
- so if you did crash, you'd be strung up for good.
-
- No thanks! Give me the *tools* necessary for safety -- the lapbelts, the
- shoulder harnesses, etc, and let *me* apply them myself. Poorly applied
- safety devices are more dangerous than no safety devices at all!
-