[article] Language Design Deal Breakers

[deadalnix]

On Sunday, 26 May 2013 at 00:35:32 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> It was Hoare's engaging presentation on it that turned it into 
> a cause celebre.
>

Certainly not. But obviously, it become an important reference in 
it.

> 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.
>

Most ICE in DMD are cause by assert fail on null pointers.