Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Except it's not my code, so I couldn't fix it if I wanted to. :-)
> 
>   It's not like programs written in other languages were bug-free...

Not at all. Let me give you an example:

C++ program crashes. How do I know? The socket it's listening on closes 
or, alternately, stops responding to requests because the program hung.

Tcl program crashes. How do I know? It catches the top-level bgerror, 
logs a record to the database (and failing that, writes it to the 
filesystem, and failing that, emails it to me, and failing that, well, 
yeah, OK.)  If the error was something that is probably recoverable 
(such as a lost socket, restarting database, etc) it cleans up all 
globals, reloads the code, closes all open sockets, and launches itself 
again.

You *could* do it in C++, sure, as long as you don't make any mistakes 
that trigger undefined behavior.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     Remember the good old days, when we
     used to complain about cryptography
     being export-restricted?

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