Re: F9X twister & ADA (was: n-dim'l vectors)

["Marin D. Condic" <mcondic-nospam@quadruscorp.com>]

Geoff Bull wrote:
> >  I still prefer to quit *immediately*.
> You missed my point.
> Depending on the situation different users will have different needs.
> Quit immediately simply isn't appropriate in may situations,
> even if it happens to be perfect for you.
> 
I'm with you. Core dumps and such are interesting when you are in
program development mode and you need information about where something
terminated, etc. But in production mode, core dumps are at minimum
impolite. (You shouldn't have any deadly errors at this point, but I
guess we've all been conditioned to accept it as a way of life by
Micro$oft and all those C apps that misreference memory all the time.)

In mission critical systems (and by extension, any application where you
think a core dump would be rude.) it is not acceptable to simply halt in
your tracks because somewhere a divide by zero or illegal memory
reference happened. If Micro$oft Word were to suddenly blow a gasket in
the middle of an editing session and not save my work, I'm going to be
upset. (Hey, wait a minute.....! :-) Even if the requirements are "fail
fixed" there is probably some point in detecting the error and doing an
orderly shutdown.

MDC
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