Comments on: RE: Spot the Bug – August 14, 2005 http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2005/09/01/re-spot-the-bug-august-14-2005/ babblings of a computer loving fool Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:52:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jenn http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2005/09/01/re-spot-the-bug-august-14-2005/comment-page-1/#comment-93 Jenn Sat, 03 Sep 2005 03:42:21 +0000 http://little.xmtp.net/blog/?p=488#comment-93 Perl catches the conditional assignment if you use -w... obviously the rest of them would be caught by many modern languages, esp. with warnings on. Clearly it would be nice if this checking was introduced into all languages, as I can't think of how it would be useful to be able to shoot yourself in the foot. I bought the Best Software Essays book Eric gave you... did you read the Raymond Chen essay where he said Windows used to let you read memory you'd already freed, and they still let old programs get away with that for compatibility? ::forehead smack:: What a mess! Perl catches the conditional assignment if you use -w… obviously the rest of them would be caught by many modern languages, esp. with warnings on.

Clearly it would be nice if this checking was introduced into all languages, as I can’t think of how it would be useful to be able to shoot yourself in the foot.

I bought the Best Software Essays book Eric gave you… did you read the Raymond Chen essay where he said Windows used to let you read memory you’d already freed, and they still let old programs get away with that for compatibility? ::forehead smack:: What a mess!

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