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For quite a while, I’ve been
disturbed by the emphasis on language in computer science. One result of that emphasis is
programmers who are C++ experts but can’t write programs that do what they’re supposed to.
The typical computer science response is that programmers need to use the right
programming/specification/development language instead of/in addition to C++. The typical
industrial response is to provide the programmer with better debugging tools, on the
theory that we can obtain good programs by putting a monkey at a keyboard and
automatically finding the errors in its code.