[article] Language Design Deal Breakers

[Paulo Pinto]

Am 26.05.2013 09:27, schrieb Walter Bright:
> On 5/25/2013 11:53 PM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> In many modern languages most developers don't check for null
>> pointers/references in the parameters and that is most of the time the
>> number
>> one cause for crashes.
>
> That would imply that statically removing null pointers would halve
> total debugging time. Is there any evidence of that?
>

Well at least for Android, yes there is a proof.

http://blog.bugsense.com/post/49924755479/bigdata-in-motion-building-a-real-time-android

http://www.bugsense.com/live

Just watch NullPointerExceptions fly by.

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Paulo