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		xnorswap 8 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The compiler is your best friend I also don't like that phrasing. It's like complaining of guard-rails while running around erratically. The guard rails aren't abusing you, they're helping you. They aren't "angry", they're just constraints.

scubbo 8 days ago [–]

Right, and I suspect that was the author's intent - to evoke a sympathetic frustration that newer programmers might feel, and then to point out how the frustration is ill-aimed.

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