2024-05-26 01:24:47 <traveler    > As an application developer, I find myself coding for the happy path, but I want to start adding more assertions, especially around user input. But, yeah, it makes words bigger :/
2024-05-26 03:02:26 <Al2O3       > keep things simple, specific, and don't program to protect folks.
2024-05-26 03:03:09 <Al2O3       > forth is a very good environment for very specific tasks, I don't believe and never have believe its best use case is exceptions, assertions or otherwise general use.
2024-05-26 03:04:02 <Al2O3       > KISS and FORTH to me are kinda the one of the same concepts.
2024-05-26 03:04:51 <thrig       > otoh there's Therac-25 for user input handling
2024-05-26 03:05:20 <Al2O3       > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
2024-05-26 03:06:24 <Al2O3       > interesting case history to read about it.
2024-05-26 03:06:44 <Al2O3       > "massively overdosed six people" :)
2024-05-26 03:06:57 <Al2O3       > "We know that the software for the Therac-25 was developed by a single person using PDP 11 assembly language"
2024-05-26 03:07:47 <Al2O3       > apparently without peer review, or any kind of test cases applied?
2024-05-26 03:08:44 <Al2O3       > and we'll go with "... The main problem was that the majority of code was written by one "hobby" programmer that should not have been trusted to develop a safe medical ..."
2024-05-26 03:08:50 <Al2O3       > not even sure it was asm via forth.
2024-05-26 03:09:04 <Al2O3       > seems it was all done in asm from what I have just read.