On 1 January 2017 at 11:50, Noel Chiappa <jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote (in part):
Which just goes to provide support for my long-term
contention, that language
features can't help a bad programmer, or prevent them from writing garbage.
Indeed. In one of his books, Wirth laments about programmers proudly
showing him terrible code written in Pascal and goes on to say the
same thing.
N.