[PD] Re: namecanvas

Frank Barknecht fbar at footils.org
Sat Feb 10 09:12:38 CET 2007


Hallo,
Matteo Sisti Sette hat gesagt: // Matteo Sisti Sette wrote:

> F. Barknecht wrote
> > Well, that's an error of the patch-author.
> 
> Well, whenever a program crashes and can't recover (that is, it forces the 
> operating system to close it), it is ALWAYS a bug of the program (unless it 
> is of the operating system of course) no matter how erroneous the input from 
> the user (i.e. the patch author).

While I agree that Pd should not crash here, I don't agree with your
reasoning: Pd is a programming language. It is possible to write buggy
programs in Pd just as in C or Javascript. That's not the fault of Pd
or C or Javascript and there's not much, the three can do about it.

Ciao
-- 
 Frank Barknecht                 _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__




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