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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Experiences/guidance on teaching Python as a first programming language
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 18:58:27 -0500
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On 20 Dec 2013 02:16:05 GMT, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> declaimed the following:

>
>2) Even for kernel developers, I believe that systems languages should be 
>safe by default. You ought to have to explicitly disable (say) bounds 
>checking in critical sections of code, rather than explicitly enable it. 
>Or worse, have to program your own bounds checking -- especially if the 
>compiler is permitted to silently disregard it if you make one tiny 
>mistake.
>
	I wonder how BLISS falls into that... Have to read the rest of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLISS (while I had 22 years on VMS, it was
mostly F77, a touch of F90, C, Pascal, and some DCL; but never used BLISS)
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