An interview with Bruce Lindsay, one of the core designers of relational technologies, claims it is all about errors. A lot of good observations about the practical side of software engineering; if you've travelled that path, you'll recognise the "shady" practices that might be better off called "best" practices.
Yes, that's about the sum of it. Reliable code is code that deals with errors. If there were no errors, my gut feeling is that we could do this whole thing without about 10% of the code we currently use.
Posted by iang at December 7, 2004 03:41 PM | TrackBack