Null references (oh no, not again!)

[Rainer Deyke]

Georg Wrede wrote:
> Rainer Deyke wrote:
>> A sample size of one doesn't mean much.  In my experience, none of those
>> four factors account for a significant amount of bugs, since all of them
>> (except integer overflow) can be caught without too much effort through
>> the copious use of assertions.
> 
> Well, you got it backwards.
> 
> Sample size one is your experience.
> Sample size N is Unreal huge source, which has been written by N guys.

It's one anecdote versus another anecdote.  Neither has a significant
sample size.  (And you're not examining the whole body of work created
by those N programmers.  You're examining one project.)


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