C/C++ style Crashes?

[Steve Horne]

On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 19:30:12 +0100, Alexander Panek
<a.panek at brainsware.org> wrote:

>And what exactly is it that makes D not solving this problem?

My reading of Jon Grants post...

: Does D still let the programmer allocate memory, cast addresses and read/write
: direct address space as we can from C/C++?
: 
: I'd like to know if it solves this problem, Java and C# don't allow such access.

Is that the 'problem' is crashes due to pointer handling in C/C++.
This 'problem' is 'solved' in Java and some other languages by
basically banning pointer arithmetic.

Since D allows any pointer manipulation as C/C++, it can suffer the
same crashes and therefore has the same 'problem'.

And my point is that the true problem is bad programmers who don't
take responsibility for their code and don't know how to program. You
can't fix that by banning language features.

So D has the same 'problem' that C and C++ have in relation to pointer
handling, I just don't believe its a real problem.

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