mission critical apps; was Re: cross platform ide

[Alex Rice]

On Feb 9, 2004, at 10:36 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> My question was:
>
>   Can you think of a way to address those concerns while retaining
>   the essential flavor of the language?
>
> How would you like it to work, and have you submitted an enhancement 
> request
> for it?

I have no solutions. It cannot be solved by tweaking the language.

With xtalk you discover bugs at runtime. period.

With other tools you discover bugs at runtime, but also flush them out 
at compile time, and *design* them out beforehand through static typing 
and strict interfaces and function signatures.

This presents unique challenges for mission critical apps.

By it's very nature, runrev presents some unique challenges for 
producing reliable, quality code. Why try to gloss over these 
challenges, or dismiss them as part of the learning curve, as known 
issues, or as possible bugs? That's what you were doing with Frank 
Leahy's list of issues. But he can defend them if he cares to.


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Alex Rice | Mindlube Software | http://mindlube.com