This thread on Hacker News terrifies me

[tide]

On Saturday, 1 September 2018 at 13:03:50 UTC, rikki cattermole 
wrote:
> On 02/09/2018 12:57 AM, tide wrote:
>> On Saturday, 1 September 2018 at 12:49:12 UTC, rikki 
>> cattermole wrote:
>>> On 02/09/2018 12:37 AM, tide wrote:
>>>> On Saturday, 1 September 2018 at 08:18:03 UTC, Walter Bright 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> On 8/31/2018 7:28 PM, tide wrote:
>>>>>> I'm just wondering but how would you code an assert to 
>>>>>> ensure the variable for a title bar is the correct color? 
>>>>>> Just how many asserts are you going to have in your 
>>>>>> real-time game that can be expected to run at 144+ fps ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Experience will guide you on where to put the asserts.
>>>>>
>>>>> But really, just apply common sense. It's not just for 
>>>>> software. If you're a physicist, and your calculations come 
>>>>> up with a negative mass, you screwed up. If you're a 
>>>>> mechanical engineer, and calculate a force of billion 
>>>>> pounds from dropping a piano, you screwed up. If you're an 
>>>>> accountant, and calculate that you owe a million dollars in 
>>>>> taxes on a thousand dollars of income, you screwed up. If 
>>>>> you build a diagnostic X-ray machine, and the control 
>>>>> software computes a lethal dose to administer, you screwed 
>>>>> up.
>>>>>
>>>>> Apply common sense and assert on unreasonable results, 
>>>>> because your code is broken.
>>>>
>>>> That's what he, and apparently you don't get. How are you 
>>>> going to use an assert to check that the color of a title 
>>>> bar is valid? Try and implement that assert, and let me know 
>>>> what you come up with.
>>>
>>> If you have the ability to screenshot a window like I do, oh 
>>> one simple method call is all that required with a simple 
>>> index to get the color.
>>>
>>> But that isn't something I'd go test... Too much system-y 
>>> stuff that can modify it.
>> 
>> And you're putting that into production code? Cause that's the 
>> entire point of this topic :).
>
> like Walter has been arguing, are better left untested in 
> production.

That's not what Walter has been arguing.