Comment Re:C++ metaprogramming is just like functional pro (Score 1) 68
When I had a $100 steak in Las Vegas, it melted like butter in my mouth. I don't think taking a circular saw to your kneecaps has the same pleasant experience.
NASA had proposed several Apollo to Venus back in the 1970's, including a triple flyby that would take 800 days. The rational back then was to keep funding to manned space program going after the Moon landings were completed.
https://falsesteps.wordpress.com/2012/07/21/manned-venus-flyby/
Anything goes wrong you are dead, whether dead quickly or dead slowly.
That's space travel in a nutshell.
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (5) All right, who's the wiseguy who stuck this trigraph stuff in here?