>That's absolutely not the C/C++ philosophy

while it is not explicitly written out like this anymore, the standard charter used to say

> Trust the programmer.

> Don't prevent the programmer from doing what needs to be done.

for 30 something years, which sounds similar to what the other poster said.

The current charter[1] only says "Allow programming freedom" which I'd still interpret to mean something similar.

1: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n3280.htm

(edited due to formatting messups)