Re: [dylan] stream locking: opt-in or opt-out?

I'm guessing you must never use Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Java,
SQL databases...

None of those should ever coredump. If they do, the developers consider
that to be their fault, not yours.

They often throw exceptions and/or print stack traces relating to user
code. That's entirely different.


On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Sean Case <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 1 Aug 2013, at 14:59, Bruce Hoult <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I care very much about programs crashing. That should never be possible.
>
> > I care much less about badly written algorithms getting incorrect
> results. No automatic mechanism can prevent that in general: you need good
> design, good test cases etc.
>
> Well, I'd rather have an honest crash than a program that seems to be
> OK but isn't.  It's a matter of circumstances, I suppose.
>
> Sean Case
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