[article] Language Design Deal Breakers

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Saturday, May 25, 2013 17:35:30 Walter Bright wrote:
> Null pointers aren't even remotely the source of most programming bugs. If
> they were, then languages that disallow them would be super-productive in
> comparison. But they aren't. They're just an incremental step, and
> elevating it into a "deal breaker" is frankly ridiculous.
> 
> His point about memory safety, though, makes a lot more sense.

Definitely, but he mixed in null pointers with that, when they're a different 
beast altogether, much as they also involve memory.

- Jonathan M Davis