Jose wrote:
Any skilled tradesperson or professional will use better tools when
they are available. Programmers are one of the few professions that
don't.


Maybe it's because programmers think they know what they're doing, and
like the flexibility of a language that lets them discover the lie
themselves.

That's as good a theory as any I've heard. I'm constantly amazed when I
hear (still!) about security breaches and other errors caused by
overruning of array boundaries and similar errors that were eliminated
20+ years ago in many languages yet which soldier on in C. Yes, I'm
aware of tools like Lint and such made to combat this, but many folks
still don't use such tools.


Matt