Improving C

Andy Behrens andyb at dartvax.UUCP
Tue Mar 20 12:40:45 AEST 1984


>  I personally would kill for built-in type checking and array
>  bounds checking during the debugging phase of my programs.  They could be
>  removed after the program reached production quality....

Dijkstra points out that it is foolish to just use bounds checking during
testing (when you can recover from errors), only to remove the checking
for production runs (when an error becomes a serious thing).

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