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When I say "best part of any programming language" I obviously mean "best part of the in-spec defined parts of any programming language".

Your suggestion that because languages have specified undefined behaviour, they are somehow not precise, makes little sense.



It's the existence of UB that is the reduction in precision. A language without UB is more precise, in my view, than one that has UB. I don't know if this a conventional view. But being able to write parsable, compiler-receivable code that does 'uh, whatever', feels like a reduction in precision to me compared to a language that does not have that property.

Otherwise, we're just saying that the precise parts of the language are precise, which isn't much of a differentiator since it's similarly true for all languages.




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