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- From: sjm@bcrki65.bnr.ca (Stuart MacMartin)
- Subject: Re: Give me safe C++
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.141735.20949@bcrka451.bnr.ca>
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 14:17:35 GMT
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- In article <BzICnn.LDx@fiu.edu> feathers@serss0 (Michael Feathers) writes:
- >My conclusion was that run time checking was being used as a crutch.
-
- Be careful what you say. I have heard managers object to debuggers because
- the people used them as a crutch. While I agree with you that it is good
- to code properly in the first place by habit, I disagree with your implied
- reluctance to use the tools at your disposal. There are those who object
- to code walkthroughs done by computer (i.e. using the debugger to step
- through code to make sure that it does what it is supposed to do), and I
- suppose there are still those who insist on checking their code for syntax
- errors before running the compiler. Are you sure that the runtime checking
- was being used as a crutch and not a development aid?
-
- Stuart
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