On 5/26/13 7:03 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Am 26.05.2013 09:27, schrieb Walter Bright:
On 5/25/2013 11:53 PM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
In many modern languages most developers don't check for null
pointers/references in the parameters and that is most of the time the
number
one cause for crashes.
That would imply that statically removing null pointers would halve
total debugging time. Is there any evidence of that?
Well at least for Android, yes there is a proof.
http://blog.bugsense.com/post/49924755479/bigdata-in-motion-building-a-real-time-android
http://www.bugsense.com/live
Just watch NullPointerExceptions fly by.
Wow, that's a nice project. Thanks!
Andrei