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Re: What do we want in Carbon? (was Modern C++)

On 11/7/03 3:43 PM, Eric Schlegel didst favor us with:

>
> On Nov 7, 2003, at 12:39 PM, Laurence Harris wrote:
>
>> Being the idealist that I am :-), it seems to me that it should be
>> important
>> to developers that their applications continue to work with new
>> releases of
>> the OS and they should code responsibly to that end.
>
> Oh, we agree. :)
>
>> I certainly don't expect Apple to modify the OS to work around my
>> coding errors.
>
> Nor should anyone. But sometimes, for the good of the community of Mac
> users, we need to anyways.
>
> -eric
>
I understand. Unfortunately a lot of developers don't really maintain their
code once it ships, so what you describe is essentially maintaining it for
them.

Hey, perhaps in some of those cases you could introduce a time delay in the
code path that works around developer-induced problems. Then the code would
work, but there'd be a performance hit to motivate the developer to fix his
code. hehehe

Larry
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