[antlr-interest] Relentless recovery (was: [getting OT ...])

[John D. Mitchell]

>>>>> "matthew" == matthew ford <Matthew.Ford at forward.com.au> writes:
[...]

> In those cases where you cannot recover, what have you lost by trying?
> What was the alternative to trying to recover?  Just shutting down the
> application and loosing all the user's existing work!  No merit points
> for doing that.  Your application will get a reputation as being
> unreliable.

Indeed.

Have you looked at the arguments from the "micro-rebooting" folks?


[...]

> It is dissapointing that the text books have trained a generation of Java
> programmers who will not even try.

Isn't "indignant apathy" the lowest level of hell in Dante's Inferno?

:-),
	John


 
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