From: Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>
Subject: Re: not null
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:56:41 -0500
Date: 2009-03-04T09:56:41-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <KEwrl.43389$EO2.26870@newsfe04.iad> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49ae93bc$0$31872$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net>
Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> As said to have been seen on /.
> another financial disaster, again caused
> by making references to nothing, in Algol W,
> http://qconlondon.com/london-2009/presentation/Null+References:+The+Billion+Dollar+Mistake
You are misreading the abstract. First of all, it's not
about some particular incident. He's talking about the
overall impact. Second, he's not talking about failure
to check for null references, he's talking about having
null references at all, so Ada is no better.
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-04 14:44 not null Georg Bauhaus
2009-03-04 14:56 ` Hyman Rosen [this message]
2009-03-04 15:22 ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-03-04 16:16 ` Adam Beneschan
2009-03-05 14:24 ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-03-05 16:07 ` Adam Beneschan
2009-03-06 1:07 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-03-04 16:09 ` Adam Beneschan
2009-03-04 20:38 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-03-05 1:54 ` Adam Beneschan
2009-03-05 8:42 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-03-05 1:32 ` Brian Drummond
2009-03-05 1:47 ` Adam Beneschan
2009-03-05 11:32 ` Brian Drummond
2009-03-05 15:06 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-03-05 13:57 ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-03-05 19:53 ` Jack Mitchell
2009-03-05 8:49 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2009-03-05 16:10 ` Adam Beneschan
2009-03-05 17:20 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2009-03-06 1:04 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-03-06 12:01 ` Harald Korneliussen
2009-03-06 12:43 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2009-03-06 13:05 ` Harald Korneliussen
2009-03-06 15:21 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-03-06 16:59 ` Harald Korneliussen
2009-03-06 17:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-03-06 20:05 ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-03-06 21:31 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-03-04 16:19 ` Robert A Duff
2009-03-04 20:39 ` Colin Paul Gloster
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