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kirk@spam_free writes:
> get over it?  we hear some people who want to use Java to build nuclear
> plant control software with and to use Java to write the software that
> will control systems that if failed will end up killing many people.

Looks like it's time to mention again that an unhandled exception
raised by conversion overflow caused the Ariane 5 rocket to go off
course, resulting in its destruction.

Exceptions don't make a language safe - they just make it more
likely that bugs will be caught in testing. That's not bad, but
it's also not a panacea.