* Graydon Hoare:

> They are very, very difficult to program safely. Show me a C or C++
> program that isn't littered with memory-safety-corrupting failure
> modes. Show me a highly concurrent one that doesn't have subtle data
> races (not just at I/O points). Show me a java program that doesn't
> have the next worst thing, random take-down-the-whole-process failures
> due to uncaught NPEs, due to lack of isolation.

To be honest, lack of isolation in Java land often manifests itself in
the form of out-of-memory conditions which (by specification) impact
the whole VM.  NPEs do happen, of course, but the VM can recover from
it without any problems at all (much like a web server can recover
from a 404 error).
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