About DbC, pros & cons

bearophile bearophileHUGS at lycos.com
Fri Oct 1 04:58:59 PDT 2010


Walter Bright:

> Perhaps counter-intuitively, the more of this that is checkable, the *more* 
> flexible your source code becomes, and the faster it is to develop code with it. 
> The reason is because it removes the fear of changing code because with no 
> checks, you can't be sure you didn't break it.

This true is right. In the end we have to write very large D programs that use DbC, in different fields (commercial software, numerics scientific code, and so on) and then we will be able to see the advantages and disadvantages of DbC in the various kinds of code.

Bye,
bearophile


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