reddit discussion on replacing Python in 0install

[Walter Bright]

On 6/15/2013 3:04 AM, deadalnix wrote:
> On Saturday, 15 June 2013 at 09:48:59 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 6/15/2013 1:36 AM, deadalnix wrote:
>>> The solution that consist into flushing in main at the end of the program is
>>> problematic as well. At this point, from programmer perspective, the program ran
>>> fun and is terminated successfully. Still the whole stuff will explode under its
>>> feet, in the runtime. That isn't something we should promote.
>>
>> If the output failed to happen, how could the program have successfully
>> behaved as intended?
>
>  From programmer's perspective.

I'm sorry, that makes no sense to me. In fact, this thread started out reporting 
an article by a programmer who was unhappy that the program exited normally but 
the output didn't happen.

Defaulting to ignoring errors and blithely proceeding is not usually considered 
a best practice.