Complexity of reallocating storage

[Dave Eisen]

In article <1991Feb4.195805.16710 at ora.com> ambar at ora.com (Jean Marie Diaz) writes:
>
>Since "anything that can go wrong will go wrong", it is a programmer's
>responsibility to deal with Murphy as gracefully as possible.  Dumping
>core is never graceful.

I disagree. There's a tradeoff between handling every single unlikely
error condition imaginable and getting my next project started. It's a
programmer's responsibility to figure out which error conditions merit
careful handling and which ones do not.



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