Einar Høót wrote:
> Robert Klemme wrote:
>> Einar wrote:
>>
>>> I'm a bit ambivalent on the strictness issue. I buy your arguments
>>> for a) simplicity and b) testing over typing (Bruce Eckel wrote an
>>> article on that, which made a lot of sense to me). At the same
>>> time, I'm still carrying scars from having a few leaks in the
>>> abstractions for a data access API I wrote in my previous job...
>>
>>
>> But these are the things that make us learn.  :-)
>>
>
> Ah, yes, I guess it's like physical exercise - "no pain, no gain"
> (suddenly, images of Gwydion from King's Quest III appear in my head)
> :-)

Actually I believe this is how learning works: basically it's trial and
error.  If you run into an error, you usually learn something. :-)

    robert