language_fan wrote:
Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:10:55 +0000, language_fan thusly wrote:
You
may disagree, but I find it much more pleasant to find that the
application does never crash even though it works 15% slower than an
optimal C++ code would.
Imagine if a buggy C++ program was monitoring your health. If it crashed
or corrupted data, you would die. Yes, the C++ code would be $1M cheaper
to build and the hardware would also be $100K cheaper (overall $10M vs
$8.9M), but people would die 95% more often. Or in banking business the
systems would handle 4x as much customers and transactions, but
unfortunately some transactions would just go to the bit heaven due to
the 5-6 reboots the mainframe required daily.
Then that just isn't production ready code, no matter the language. You
could get the exact same behaviors with even the safest language ever.
A safe language does not prevent logic errors.
Jeremie
