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Re: The shambolic self-taught programmer?

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On 18 Jun 2020 20:30:37 GMT
Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:

> On 2020-06-18, Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > Error recovery makes up large amount of production code, and it’s
> > usually not “fun” to write.
> 
> Indeed.  But when a system falls over due to an unhandled error,
> it's usually not "fun" to get it back up again either.  Anyone
> who skimps on error handling should be forced to participate in
> said recovery.  (It's a variation on "eating your own dog food".)

	There is a design approach where crashing out or being killed is
considered the normal exit and crash recovery using checkpointed state is
the normal start up procedure. It makes for very robust systems even under
difficult conditions.

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