From: Wes Groleau <wesgroleau@despammed.com>
Subject: Re: C.A.R. Hoare on liability
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 09:31:01 -0500
Date: 2002-06-21T09:31:01-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D1338A5.A34E6C7A@despammed.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: aesjv5$glj$1@nh.pace.co.uk
> So maybe I don't get where C.A.R. Hoare is going with this - you want to be
> "customer driven"? Or is it more important that you build "good" software -
> which *can* be done with runtime checks turned off when necessary? (Surely,
> he can't be convinced that it is *never* necessary to turn off runtime
> checks, can he?)
I have no idea what he thinks now. :-)
But in the quote, he states that he (or his
company) suggested an option to turn off the checks
and the customers said "No!"
The other extreme is a language that does not
have the checks, and when offered a "helper app"
that might do _some_ of the checks, some users
say "No!"
Seems like Ada has a nice balance between those
extremes.
--
Wes Groleau
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-17 16:09 C.A.R. Hoare on liability Wes Groleau
2002-06-19 16:14 ` Mike Silva
2002-06-19 16:57 ` Darren New
2002-06-19 18:03 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-06-19 17:54 ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-20 13:05 ` Marin David Condic
2002-06-21 14:31 ` Wes Groleau [this message]
2002-06-21 16:47 ` Marin David Condic
2002-06-21 11:55 ` Robert Dewar
2002-06-21 20:45 ` Robert I. Eachus
2002-06-22 13:14 ` Robert Dewar
2002-06-22 13:36 ` Jack Flynn
2002-06-22 16:47 ` Mark Biggar
2002-06-23 15:47 ` Robert I. Eachus
2002-06-22 2:55 ` SteveD
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