Safety strategies

2011-02-06 Thread bearophile
This is one of the most interesting CS ideas I've found in the past month, here I have started to understand rationally why dynamic languages like Python may generally be not significantly more bug prone than tightly statically typed languages like ML or D:

Re: Safety strategies

2011-02-06 Thread Ulrik Mikaelsson
Interesting idea, especially when you start considering how software might survive errors in dependent systems, I.E. hardware, networking, or software components outside the control of the compiler. It sounds like the Erlang approach is far more likely to survive spurious bitflips,