null references redux + Looney Tunes

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Jeremie Pelletier" <jeremiep at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:ha51v1$24ps$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Justin Johansson wrote:
>> For the interest of newsgroups readers, I dropped in at the Cafe the 
>> other day and
>> the barista had this to say
>>
>> http://cafe.elharo.com/programming/imagine-theres-no-null/
>>
>> Disclaimer: YMMV
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> -- Justin Johansson
>
> Most of the bugs he expose are trivial to debug and mostly come from 
> beginners.
>
> From the article:
> "The distinction between primitive and object types is a relic of days 
> when 40 MHz was considered a fast CPU"
>
> I so disagree with that on so many levels. That's exactly what I believe 
> is wrong with programmers today, they excuse their sloppy programming and 
> lazy debugging with safe constructs which have way more overhead than is 
> actually needed. It doesn't really make the program easier to code but the 
> programmer less careful, leading to new kind of bugs.
>
> Maybe for financial or medical domains its acceptable since speed is not 
> an issue, but I expect my $3k computer to not slow down to a crawl because 
> its software is written in a "safe" way and I like people with older 
> computers to still be able to run my programs without waiting 5 minutes 
> between any two mouse clicks.

Holy crap, I feel like I have a clone ;)

(Hopefully that was original enough to rationalize a blatant "me too" post 
;) )