31 Dec
2003
31 Dec
'03
8:44 p.m.
On December 31, 2003 03:29 pm, Mike Hearn wrote:
Maybe because crashing is the right thing to do in many cases,
Why? I'd have thought failing the API call would be more sensible, or
Because it's bad policy: it's better to fail early and as close as possible to the error point, rather then let the program limp along.
In general, MS made a bad policy call by trying to help badly written apps to crawl along. This results in the long term in a lot of hard to track bugs, slower/bloated code, etc. Remember that the road to hell is paved with good intentions...
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Dimi.