On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 08:27:14AM -0400, D. Richard Hipp wrote: > [...] > I am constantly amazed at the prevailing idea (exemplified > by Java) that software should be strongly typed and should > not use goto statement or pointers - all in the name of > reducing bugs - but that it is OK to use multiple threads > within the same address space. Strong typing helps prevent > only bugs that are trivially easy to locate and fix. The > use of goto statements and pointers likewise results in > deterministic problems that are easy to test for and > relatively easy to track down and correct. But threading > bugs tend to manifest themselves as timing-dependent > glitches and lock-ups that are hardware and platform > dependent, that never happen the same way twice, and that > only appear for customers after deployment and never in a > testing environment.
My quote of the week :-) -- Gerhard -- Gerhard Häring - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Python, web & database development
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