On 04/10/2014 10:05, Walter Bright wrote:
On 10/1/2014 7:17 AM, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
Sean, I fully agree with the points you have been making so far.
But if Walter is fixated on thinking that all the practical uses of D
will be
critical systems, or simple (ie, single-use, non-interactive)
command-line
applications, it will be hard for him to comprehend the whole point
that "simply
aborting on error is too brittle in some cases".
Airplane avionics systems all abort on error, yet the airplanes don't
fall out of the sky.
I've explained why and how this works many times, here it is again:
http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/safe-systems-from-unreliable-parts/228701716
That's completely irrelevant to the "simply aborting on error is too
brittle in some cases" point above, because I wasn't talking about
avionics systems, or any kind of mission critical systems at all. In
fact, the opposite (non critical systems).
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Bruno Medeiros
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