Null references (oh no, not again!)
Sean Kelly
sean at invisibleduck.org
Wed Mar 4 09:45:40 PST 2009
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> Plus, a crash *can* be nearly as bad, if not equally
> bad, as data-corruption when it occurs in something mission-critical. This
> is not a problem to be taken lightly.
Mission-critical software is typically designed to terminate the instant
an error is detected so that a back-up system can take over. In fact,
Erlang (designed for telephone switches) is is designed specifically
with this in mind--any exception terminates the app.
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