A Philosophy of Software Design

[Walter Bright]

On 6/30/2026 6:10 PM, Mike Shah wrote:
> Probably most importantly, it 
> makes me think about what value to initialize a float to which is important.

Yes. Many obscure bugs happen because the programmer, who is maintaining the 
code, does not know what value to initialize it to so just inserts "0" and turns 
a compile time error into a coding error.