A Philosophy of Software Design

[Kagamin]

On Sunday, 24 May 2026 at 01:39:48 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> For example, the title of Chapter 10 is "Define Errors out of 
> Existence". I've been trying to do that since the 1980s.

Sounds a bit disturbing, on error resume next is a method to 
define errors out of existence. The replacement character being 
good for unicode is an exclusive property of unicode.

> My compiler took a different approach. It would just keep 
> enlarging the string buffer until it ran out of memory. Then 
> there was only one error message - "out of memory" - and the 
> compiler would abort.

On linux if a service overallocates, it makes the system 
unresponsive. I suppose systemd somehow disables oom killer 
presumably with an intention to let systemd manage resource 
limits, and setrlimit doesn't work for memory for some reason.