This thread on Hacker News terrifies me

tide tide at tide.tide
Sat Sep 1 00:47:02 UTC 2018


On Friday, 31 August 2018 at 22:27:47 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 8/31/2018 2:21 PM, tide wrote:
>> On Friday, 31 August 2018 at 19:50:20 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> "Stopping all executing may not be the correct 'safe state' 
>>> for an airplane though!"
>> Depends on the aircraft and how it is implemented. If you have 
>> a plane that is fly by wire, and you stop all executing then 
>> even the pilot no longer has control of the plane anymore, 
>> which would be very bad.
>
> I can't even read the rest of posting after this.
>
> Please read the following articles, then come back.
>
> Assertions in Production Code
> https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/b14.html
>
> Safe Systems from Unreliable Parts
> https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/b39.html
>
> Designing Safe Software Systems Part 2
> https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/b40.html

I've already read them before. Why don't you explain what is 
wrong with it rather than posting articles. You are just taking 
one line comments without even thinking about the context.


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