Python less error-prone than Java

Christoph Zwerschke cito at online.de
Mon Jun 5 06:07:55 EDT 2006


Ilpo Nyyssönen wrote:
> It is not different. Your crash can tell you that it was a null
> pointer. Your crash can tell you that you stomped over memory. You
> just get the information about the error in different way.

Not all stomping over memory must result in a crash. You might just get 
wrong results, and you don't notice it. Also, if you get such a crash 
it's much harder to find out the reason. It may show off only later in a 
different part of the program.

-- Chris




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