What's the best way to minimize the need of run time checks?

[Michael Torrie]

On 08/12/2016 05:07 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> The first time I ever compiled a full-sized application (not a particular
> large one either, it was a text editor a little more featureful than
> Notepad) it took something like nine hours to compile on a Mac SE (this was
> circa 1990). How mad would I have been if, eight hours and thirty minutes
> into the compilation, the compiler suddenly stopped with an error caused by
> a mistyped variable name?

Surely this application was built using a build system, even back then,
that would allow compilation to resume and not rebuild object files that
were already built.