On Saturday, May 25, 2013 17:35:30 Walter Bright wrote: > Null pointers aren't even remotely the source of most programming bugs. If > they were, then languages that disallow them would be super-productive in > comparison. But they aren't. They're just an incremental step, and > elevating it into a "deal breaker" is frankly ridiculous. > > His point about memory safety, though, makes a lot more sense.
Definitely, but he mixed in null pointers with that, when they're a different beast altogether, much as they also involve memory. - Jonathan M Davis
