Lies in education [was Re: The "loop and a half"]

[Chris Angelico]

On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 12:00 AM, bartc <bc at freeuk.com> wrote:
> Even if data is actually in write-protected memory, attempts to write to it
> will cause a crash. On my home-made system, they just did nothing. Much more
> graceful.

The novice thinks his job is to stop the program from crashing. The
expert knows that a crash is actually far FAR better than silently
doing nothing.

ChrisA