Prototype OO

[Paul Rubin]

"bruno.desthuilliers at gmail.com" <bruno.desthuilliers at gmail.com> writes:
> Here the problem is more philosophical than anything else. Python's
> philosophy is that most programmers are responsible and normally
> intelligent, so treating them all like retarted dummies because
> someone might one day do something stupid is just wasting everyone's
> time. This is also why there's no language-enforced access
> restriction, only a simple stupid convention to denote implementation
> stuff from API. The fact is that it JustWork.

    Additional Principles for C1X (new)
    ...
    12. Trust the programmer, as a goal, is outdated in respect to the
    security and safety programming communities.  While it should not
    be totally disregarded as a facet of the spirit of C, the
    C1X version of the C Standard should take into account that
    programmers need the ability to check their work.

C - The C1X Charter
Document: WG14 N1250, p. 3
http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n1250.pdf