[Shootout-list] Safety vs. speed

[Peter Hinely]

Hi,

>
> Show me a language that never allows the programmer to make an error.
> You will be a rich man!
>

I can't show you a language that never allows the programmer to make an
error, but I can show you languages that eliminate entire classes of
errors.  Unfortunately history has shown that that won't make me rich.

As I'm sure you know, in some languages, if you want a modular integer
type, you have to specify that explicity, instead of it being the default
for integers (as it is in C).

Regards,
Peter