From -6131389752434388440 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,ccbfcafab96cf493 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-12-04 11:58:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!dispose.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: Pete Becker Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Proposol to increase robustness of programs Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 19:57:13 GMT Organization: Dinkumware, Ltd Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ Message-ID: <3C0D29B2.337FC8D9@acm.org> References: <3BFE97B3.91430FB1@wanadoo.fr> <3C058126.36357A00@acm.org> <7dc3b1ea.0111300954.186f1ff5@posting.google.com> <3C094998.F387ABB1@acm.org> <3C0C2AD4.EC017282@wizard.net> X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 1007495838 mail2news:24334 mail2news mail2news.demon.co.uk X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Mail2News-Path: news.demon.net!mulga.cs.mu.oz.au X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: 4 Dec 2001 19:52:53 GMT X-Accept-Language: en Lines: 38 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.std.c++:8470 "James Kuyper Jr." wrote: > > Pete Becker wrote: > > > > Peter Dimov wrote: > ... > > > On the other hand, programmers that do not do proper testing (group > > > #2) will benefit from it. The cost will be an extra keyword. > > > > > > Not giving group #2 what they want will not automatically make them > > > migrate to #1. > > > > > > > Giving group #2 what they want won't turn them into good programmers. > > No, but it will help group #2 produce better code than they otherwise > would have. Maybe. On a scale of 1-10 it might move them up to 2. That's still a long way from 10. > It will also help group #1 catch their errors earlier than > they would otherwise have done. > Once again: how often has this happened to you? It's certainly not something I spend any time worrying about. -- Pete Becker Dinkumware, Ltd. (http://www.dinkumware.com) --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.research.att.com/~austern/csc/faq.html ]