>That's absolutely not the C/C++ philosophy while it is not explicitly written out like this anymore, the standard charter used to say > Trust the programmer.

>That's absolutely not the C/C++ philosophy while it is not explicitly written out like this anymore, the standard charter used to say > Trust the programmer. > Don't prevent the programmer from doing what needs to be done. for 30 something years, which sounds similar to what the other poster said. The current charter[1] only says "Allow programming freedom" which I'd still interpret to mean something similar. 1: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n3280.htm https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n3280.htm (edited due to formatting messups)