Re: Maintenance cost - promoting BB & CP

From: Fyodor Tkachov <"Fyodor>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 16:04:08 +0100

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> However, it is certainly possible to write good systems in bad languages
> if the system design is good

I disagree: beyond some complexity threshold (depending on the "dynamism" of the data structures involved), creating a solid system is impossible without language support such as automatic memory management -- or equivalent tricks with tools, language subsets, etc., which, however, are very costly and still less reliable as when the restrictions are built into the compiler.

Cheers
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