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On the other hand you made an example that was accidentally valid. The axis of good/bad code exists independent of language. But there is no such thing is good/bad (morally) casks of whiskey.

Get to work strongly implying that C is the actual cause of all these things with no externalities, and then you get toward the fallacy.

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Depends on who's drinking the whiskey.

Actually with whiskey I am more than willing to take a one sided opinion. :-)

>there is no such thing is good/bad (morally) casks of whiskey.

I disagree -- just as someone writing C can do it well or poorly, someone drinking whiskey can behave well or poorly.

The spectrum of drunken behavior is a big one, and does include moral and immoral activity...

That is the drinkER, not the drink.

mathattack was focusing on the programming language. To parallel the whiskey morals they need to focus on the act of programming, or on the programmer. Not the language.

I interpreted it as more of a longwinded way to take both sides of an issue to not anger either side. C programming seemed less controversial than something like guns or abortion, but perhaps not around here. :-)

Really it's the programmER that writes the memory leaks, too.

I think that's what he was trying to say.

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