It's interesting to see a "hacker" discussion of this that entirely misses several topics that one would expect programmers to at least mention: * Whether rele

It's interesting to see a "hacker" discussion of this that entirely misses several topics that one would expect programmers to at least mention: * Whether release builds should have assert() enabled. * Whether a process #1 program should use assertions at all. * Whether assert() is the right mechanism to use for input validation. * How a process #1 program should recover from assertion failures.