Pure dynamic casts?

[language_fan]

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:10:55 +0000, language_fan thusly wrote:

> You
> may disagree, but I find it much more pleasant to find that the
> application does never crash even though it works 15% slower than an
> optimal C++ code would.

Imagine if a buggy C++ program was monitoring your health. If it crashed 
or corrupted data, you would die. Yes, the C++ code would be $1M cheaper 
to build and the hardware would also be $100K cheaper (overall $10M vs 
$8.9M), but people would die 95% more often. Or in banking business the 
systems would handle 4x as much customers and transactions, but 
unfortunately some transactions would just go to the bit heaven due to 
the 5-6 reboots the mainframe required daily.