Isn't bankrupcy a pretty healthy outcome to a business?
Isn't death a pretty healthy outcome to life?
Isn't coup a pretty healthy outcome to a country?
Isn't segfault a pretty healthy outcome to program?
I don't know much about the other ones but segfault is definitely healthier than a buggy program being allowed to write at address 0 or continuing arithmetics after division by 0.
IIRC it took PHP quite many versions to get there (if it even has).
I remember when Firefox's crash recovery got so good, and its normal shutdown process took so long, that someone suggested that it should just crash when the user hit the exit button.
Absolutely, especially when the alternative is financial ruin because you didn’t take legal remedies available to you.
People get caught up in absolutes because they fit in a nice box, but most of the time life is messier.
I mean, since it's the inevitable end result no matter what actions one takes in their life, yes?
Pardon the snark: http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/318
>> Isn't segfault a pretty healthy outcome to program?
Found the Erlang user.