Re^5: Why isn't C<use strict> the default?

...as soon has the newbie has learnt enough of this "language for newbies" to decide he isn't a newbie any longer, he'll stop using it...

Actually, yes, I see and have seen that often.

Done that too.

Sorry I have to disagree. Didn't you make decisions like:

No more BASIC, no more DOS, no more Ada, no more awk, no more shell scripting, much less use of sed, use more perl in vi than vi builtins... (to name some of mine as an example)?

Cheers, Sören

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Re^6: Why isn't C<use strict> the default? by Anonymous Monk on Oct 29, 2004 at 10:58 UTC
Yeah, and I also made a decision to not even start to use Python. (Although I think it's a wonderful language for newbie programmers, and many people programming in Perl would be far better off programming in Python (including, but not limited to, almost anyone who force "better coding style", for some measurement of "better" in one way or another upon others)). Idem for Java. Had I been a programming in Python, I think I would have made the switch to Perl eventually. Had I been programming in Java, I would have switched to C (but I'll stick to C and don't see myself going to Java route).	[reply]

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Re^6: Why isn't C<use strict> the default?
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 29, 2004 at 10:58 UTC

Idem for Java.

Had I been a programming in Python, I think I would have made the switch to Perl eventually. Had I been programming in Java, I would have switched to C (but I'll stick to C and don't see myself going to Java route).

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