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From: dkeisen@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen)
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Subject: Re: Complexity of reallocating storage
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Date: 4 Feb 91 21:13:10 GMT
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In article <1991Feb4.195805.16710@ora.com> ambar@ora.com (Jean Marie Diaz) writes:
>
>Since "anything that can go wrong will go wrong", it is a programmer's
>responsibility to deal with Murphy as gracefully as possible.  Dumping
>core is never graceful.

I disagree. There's a tradeoff between handling every single unlikely
error condition imaginable and getting my next project started. It's a
programmer's responsibility to figure out which error conditions merit
careful handling and which ones do not.



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