Re: Antilock brakes

Joe Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I believe the ABS in my car once saved the life of a drunken idiot
> > in a late-model Corvette who ran a stop-sign directly into my path
> > late at night.  His car had ABS too.  By the time we both came to
> > a stop, my headlights were six inches from his driver-side door,
> > bracketing the guy, so I got a real good look at him.
> >
> > He asserted his sobriety by gunning his engine and fishtailing his
> > way out of there.
> >
> > I'm not sure of the moral here.  Don't drink and type?
>
> Don't drink and *statically* type.

Reread the story. The proper analogy would be: Don't drink and *not*
statically type. Preferably, don't program at all.