OpenEuphoria

Re: Essential feature: assertions

• Posted by David Cuny <dcuny at LANSET.COM> Jan 30, 2001
• 522 views

George Henry wrote:

> Flamebait, probably. B&D features? Whazzat?

>From the Jargon File:

bondage-and-discipline language n

A language (such as Pascal, Ada, APL, or Prolog) that, though ostensibly
general-purpose, is designed so as to enforce an author's theory of `right
programming' even though said theory is demonstrably inadequate for systems
hacking or even vanilla general-purpose programming. Often abbreviated
`B&D'; thus, one may speak of things "having the B&D nature". See Pascal;
oppose languages of choice.

-- David Cuny

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