On 05/03/10 10:13, Christian Lippka wrote:
Defensive programming, eh? Please don't. (Look up the arguments
against it in Bertrand Meyer's OO tome, for example. "Defensive
programming appears [...] to cover up for the lack of a systematic
approach by blindly putting in as many checks as possible, furthering
the problem of reliability rather than addressing it seriously.")
Defensive programming? Please DO! I have yet to find a customer
reported problem that was caused by defensive programming. On the
other side I know (not guess, I know, we have numbers) how many crashes
we already fixed by Defensive programming.
As I already wrote in another mail in this thread, "defensive
programming" was probably a bad term, as different people probably
understand it to mean different things. To avoid talking past each
other here, can you provide an example of how what you call defensive
programming has fixed a crash?
-Stephan
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