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Oh, my God. "On Error Resume Next" is one of my earliest memories of learning to program for Windows. It never occurred to me that it might result in deaths.
by piannucci 6y ago
Oh, my God. "On Error Resume Next" is one of my earliest memories of learning to program for Windows. It never occurred to me that it might result in deaths.
- redwall_hp 6y agoThat's an interesting ethical point in CS: sure, you didn't intend the software you hacked together in an afternoon to be used in anything with life-and-death consequences. But that doesn't mean someone isn't going to come along later and use it, without ever even looking at the source, for something very critical down the line. I wonder how many bleeding edge master branches of GitHub repos, pulled in blindly by someone cobbling something together to meet a deadline, are running in places they probably shouldn't be.
- ClumsyPilot 6y agoPeople have died from using unsuitable contruction materials or devices, that were never designed to be used that way. It's not the fault of the original designer if he was clearly targetting a different purpose.
- rbirkby 6y agohttps://github.com/ReactiveX/RxJava/wiki/Error-Handling-Operators#onerrorresumenext https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxJava/wiki/Error-Handling-Oper... Lots of love for it in Rx