On 19/09/2019 14:53, John Cowan wrote:
>  If you don't use
> the DSL, you've already shot yourself in the foot, but nothing will prevent
> dumb programmers from using string-append (or equivalent), except the fact
> that dumb programmers don't generally wind up using Scheme.  We hope.

"Programmers shouldn't be sloppy and careless" as a design paradigm
leads us to languages like C++, full of complicated rules whose
violation leads to undefined behaviour at run time... I'd like to think
that better languages make it hard for even the sloppiest programmers
(such as myself) to mess up ;-)

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