On 02/02/2014 04:39 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
I'm not sure how I feel about that, particularly since I haven't seen such
data myself. My natural reaction when people complain about null pointer
problems is that they're sloppy programmers (which isn't necessarily fair, but
that's my natural reaction).
There is no such thing as 'naturality' that is magically able to justify
personal attacks in a technical discussion, even if qualified.
I pretty much never have problems with null
pointers and have never understood why so many people complain about them.
I guess it is usually some combination of:
Some projects feature more than one programmer.
Hard data.
Aesthetics. (The situation does not have to be unbearable in order to
improve it!)
