Re: [Lit.] Buffer overruns
From: Larry Elmore (ljelmore__at_comcast.net)
Date: 02/01/05
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Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 01:45:32 -0600 To: infobahn <infobahn@btinternet.com>
infobahn wrote:
> Paul Rubin wrote:
>
>>infobahn <infobahn@btinternet.com> writes:
>>
>>>I've tried hard to understand how you could possibly need ABC in
>>>production,
>>
>>As Kernighan and Plauger put it in "software tools", enabling the
>>safety checks for debugging and disabling them for production is like
>>wearing a parachute on the ground but taking it off once you're in the
>>air.
>
>
> They're wrong. Yes, I know what I'm saying and I know who I'm saying
> it about. But they're still wrong. The analogy is cute, but proof
> by analogy is fraud (Stroustrup, if he wasn't quoting someone else).
>
> Here's another analogy for you, just as pertinent, just as relevant,
> and just as fraudulent if offered as proof:
>
> Enabling the safety checks for debugging and disabling them for
> production is like putting scaffolding up when you're building
> a skyscraper and taking the scaffolding down again when you're
> finished.
No, more like building access hatches and maintenance tunnels and
emergency evacuation paths into the skyscraper, and then when you're
done, filling them all in with concrete.
--Larry
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