On 09/10/17 20:06, Stefan Ram wrote:
[email protected] (Stefan Ram) writes:
Steve D'Aprano <[email protected]> writes:
At various stages of education, we teach many lies-to-children, including:
Many of those lies can be perfectly true in some sense.
I pick some examples:
Another noun phrase with "lie" is "white lie".
In his book about programming, Bjarne Stroustrup writes:
|We try hard to avoid "white lies"; that is, we refrain from
|oversimplified explanations that are clear and easy to
|understand, but not true in the context of real languages and
|real problems.
That would go a long way to explaining why I tried and failed to learn
C++ three times from Stroustrup's books.
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