From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fc050a66c3b5d87d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,86e8c626be2471ae X-Google-Attributes: gid1094ba,public From: "Marin D. Condic" Subject: Re: F9X twister & ADA (was: n-dim'l vectors) Date: 2000/04/12 Message-ID: <38F492A7.997140CF@quadruscorp.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 610087868 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <8cctts$ujr$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38EA0440.1ECBC158@ncep.noaa.gov> <38ED4ECA.ADB698C9@sdynamix.com> <38F28A85.53809F39@sdynamix.com> <38F2C1DC.5538F9F0@research.canon.com.au> <5jJI4.297$PV.9915@bgtnsc06-news.ops.worldnet.att.net> <38F3D1D3.416B3493@research.canon.com.au> <85SI4.4008$fV.338113@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net> <38F3F803.A4A56259@research.canon.com.au> <38F41313.DAF90E74@research.canon.com.au> Organization: Quadrus Corporation X-Sender: "Marin D. Condic" (Unverified) X-Server-Date: 12 Apr 2000 12:15:28 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-04-12T12:15:28+00:00 List-Id: Geoff Bull wrote: > > I still prefer to quit *immediately*. > You missed my point. > Depending on the situation different users will have different needs. > Quit immediately simply isn't appropriate in may situations, > even if it happens to be perfect for you. > I'm with you. Core dumps and such are interesting when you are in program development mode and you need information about where something terminated, etc. But in production mode, core dumps are at minimum impolite. (You shouldn't have any deadly errors at this point, but I guess we've all been conditioned to accept it as a way of life by Micro$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 -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic - Quadrus Corporation - http://www.quadruscorp.com/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ q u a d r u s c o r p . c o m Visit my web site at: http://www.mcondic.com/ "I'd trade it all for just a little more" -- Charles Montgomery Burns, [4F10] ======================================================================