Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> I'd never start a student learning on their own with an 
> unsafe language that doesn't tell them when they've made a mistake.

  Using a good compiler with a good debug mode helps a lot. For example
VC++ adds bounds and other checks to all STL operations in debug mode,
as well as many other things. (gcc also has support for this, but
unfortunately it's such an obscure flag that a newbie will never find
it unless someone tells him.)

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                                                          - Warp

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