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- From: dom@oasis.icl.co.uk (dominic alston)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Give me safe C++
- Message-ID: <1536@ozz.oasis.icl.co.uk>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 11:51:11 GMT
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- jimad@microsoft.com (Jim Adcock) writes:
- >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!
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- This is starting to get good, maybe we should compile something for a book ?
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