my regular mistake is that...

[juan_gandhi]

I assume that there is an infinite number of integer numbers, while for most of programmers in this world and age there are either 2^16, or 2^32, or 2^64 of them. Tastes may vary. Of course the generations of 2^16 numbers will retire soon; new generations are sure that there are 2^32 integer numbers and 2^64 "long" numbers. They'll go too; but while they are here, it is really hard to talk to them. We are in different universes.

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[furia-krucha.livejournal.com]

Indeed, many a programmer fail to grasp EWD416 (http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd04xx/EWD416.PDF) completely.

[ivan-gandhi.livejournal.com]

I guess that's why they all fail when new paradigms arrive. They are not trained to think ahead. But not to worry; the next generation of happy idiots will happily replace the old generation of unhappy idiots, and that's it.