[article] Language Design Deal Breakers

[Walter Bright]

On 5/26/2013 4:03 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> 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

You're assuming that "all program bugs exhibit themselves as a crash". This is 
quite false.