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You make a very persuasive point, but I have reservation regarding the words "encourage" and "solve". I would think the fact of the possibility of mapping exce
by lucifer 17y ago
You make a very persuasive point, but I have reservation regarding the words "encourage" and "solve".
I would think the fact of the possibility of mapping exceptions (according to some abstraction order mirroring the layering of the overall system) calls for "acknowledge" instead of "solve".
And compilers can help with robustness of programs, but their influence on the robustness of programmers is not immediately evident. So perhaps "suggests" instead of "encourage" for a subset of programmers?
- barrkel 17y agoThe failure modes of software written in C versus memory safe languages, with particular attention to security and buffer overflows, persuades me very strongly that languages (and their implementations, i.e. compilers) do indeed influence the robustness of programmers. What is a programmer other than the programs he writes?