null references redux + Looney Tunes

[Jeremie Pelletier]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Jeremie Pelletier" <jeremiep at gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:ha51v1$24ps$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> Justin Johansson wrote:
>>> For the interest of newsgroups readers, I dropped in at the Cafe the 
>>> other day and
>>> the barista had this to say
>>>
>>> http://cafe.elharo.com/programming/imagine-theres-no-null/
>>>
>>> Disclaimer: YMMV
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> -- Justin Johansson
>> Most of the bugs he expose are trivial to debug and mostly come from 
>> beginners.
>>
>> From the article:
>> "The distinction between primitive and object types is a relic of days 
>> when 40 MHz was considered a fast CPU"
>>
>> I so disagree with that on so many levels. That's exactly what I believe 
>> is wrong with programmers today, they excuse their sloppy programming and 
>> lazy debugging with safe constructs which have way more overhead than is 
>> actually needed. It doesn't really make the program easier to code but the 
>> programmer less careful, leading to new kind of bugs.
>>
>> Maybe for financial or medical domains its acceptable since speed is not 
>> an issue, but I expect my $3k computer to not slow down to a crawl because 
>> its software is written in a "safe" way and I like people with older 
>> computers to still be able to run my programs without waiting 5 minutes 
>> between any two mouse clicks.
> 
> Holy crap, I feel like I have a clone ;)
> 
> (Hopefully that was original enough to rationalize a blatant "me too" post 
> ;) )
> 

It certainly was, thanks :)