Re: terminate applications

[tmoran@acm.org]

> But that's not really under your control. In Windows or UNIX, there are
> ways to immediately kill a program from the outside, regardless of what
> the program would prefer. And these services are available to a program
> that wishes to invoke them, even on itself. So you don't gain anything
  Of course you do.  You make it less convenient for the fast acting,
slow thinking, programmer to shoot himself in the foot, at the cost of
minor inconvenience on those less common occasions when system abort is
actually necessary.
  It must be a curious world, where all editors allow arbitrary length
lines, rocket controls once made either plug in and work in all future
kinds of space transport or specify in advance which ones won't work, and
there's no difference between leading into or leading away from temptation.