D. Richard Hipp today on the SQLite mailing list:
I am constantly amazed at the prevailing idea (exemplified
by Java) that software should be strongly typed and should
not use goto statement or pointers - all in the name of
reducing bugs - but that it is OK to use multiple threads
within the same address space. Strong typing helps prevent
only bugs that are trivially easy to locate and fix. The
use of goto statements and pointers likewise results in
deterministic problems that are easy to test for and
relatively easy to track down and correct. But threading
bugs tend to manifest themselves as timing-dependent
glitches and lock-ups that are hardware and platform
dependent, that never happen the same way twice, and that
only appear for customers after deployment and never in a
testing environment.
