[TUHS] Minimum Array Sizes in 16 bit C (was Maximum)

[arnold at skeeve.com]

Bakul Shah via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:

>
> > Thus Go and Rust are good things, taking the sharp tools out of the
> > hands of the people who aren't qualified to use them. Same thing Python.
>
> Sounds like boomer mentality... Kids these days... :-) Also sounds like
> the kind of arguments assembly language programmers presented when *we*
> were the "kids" trying out "structured programming"!

It's not that they're intrinsically unqualified. They were never
taught, so they don't know what they're doing. I'm unqualified to
fly a plane because I never learned or practiced, not because I'm not
intelligent enough.  Same thing for many of today's programmers
and C / C++.