Re: Luxasm news

On 04 May 2005 20:40:36 GMT
Betov <betov@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Johannes Kroll <j-krollNO-SPAM-BLAH-BLAH@xxxxxx> écrivait
> news:d5b5tp$ald$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>
> > On Thu, 05 May 2005 16:44:05 +0200
> > "\\\\o//annabee" <http://www.TheWannabee.Org> wrote:
> >
> > I'm not sure why you post this here. What I meant was that software
> > generally isn't "bullet proof", i. e. programs can still crash no
> matter
> > how careful you design/implement them. So a crash handler that tries
> > to save a backup of the current document is not a bad idea.
>
>
> The fact is that we do effectively have a "crash handler",
> in RosAsm, that saves the user's Source before the shut-down.

Good!

> But i was not much in favour of this implementation: The best
> way to destroy a Source is with the hands of the Programmer.
> So, better is not re-using a Source saved at the hang time,
> in a questionable hope of saving some much probably defective
> typing, that will very unlikely be longer than a couple of
> Lines.
>
> Considering the way a Programmer writes, when he is using
> a Tool that can re-compile his app in the click time, and
> considering the reasons why a Programming Tool might hang,
> once made "pretty stable"..., in practice, in between the
> writing time, and the end of the Compilation, there is no
> reason, at all, to save anything. All the contrary: Saving
> in between could put the source in danger, as the reason of
> the hang is much probably inside the Source itself - even
> if this shows a real bug in the Programming Tool -, locking
> the developement into a vicious circle, until the programming
> Tool's bug could be fixed.

You mean if RosAsm crashes the error must be in the user's source code?

> A pretty good example where paranoïa could create problems
> that do not exist, without paranoïa. Think of this, Troll,

I think you mis-spelt my name, it's Kroll, not Troll.

> you are on the right track, and try to convince Beth of
> taking her medication, instead of believing Randall Hyde
> bullshits.
>
> :)
>
> Betov.
>
> < http://rosasm.org >
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