[al_chemist]

> isn't divorce a pretty healthy outcome to a marriage

Isn't bankrupcy a pretty healthy outcome to a business?

Isn't death a pretty healthy outcome to life?

Isn't coup a pretty healthy outcome to a country?

Isn't segfault a pretty healthy outcome to program?

[yread]

> Isn't segfault a pretty healthy outcome to program?

I don't know much about the other ones but segfault is definitely healthier than a buggy program being allowed to write at address 0 or continuing arithmetics after division by 0.

[ThePadawan]

> continuing arithmetics after division by 0

IIRC it took PHP quite many versions to get there (if it even has).

[robertlagrant]

> Isn't segfault a pretty healthy outcome to program?

I remember when Firefox's crash recovery got so good, and its normal shutdown process took so long, that someone suggested that it should just crash when the user hit the exit button.

[xref]

> Isn't bankrupcy a pretty healthy outcome to a business?

Absolutely, especially when the alternative is financial ruin because you didn’t take legal remedies available to you.

People get caught up in absolutes because they fit in a nice box, but most of the time life is messier.

[Dylan16807]

You're messing up your shades of gray. Being better than financial ruin isn't enough to qualify as a healthy outcome. "Healthy" includes a swath of outcomes, but it's not wide enough to include bankruptcy.

[LocalH]

> Isn't death a pretty healthy outcome to life?

I mean, since it's the inevitable end result no matter what actions one takes in their life, yes?

[ThePadawan]

> Isn't segfault a pretty healthy outcome to program?

Pardon the snark: http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/318

[da_big_ghey]

Hah, I remember reading a comment a while back about a HFT firm. The guys there wanted to use Java but couldn't deal with GC latency spikes, so they just bought a ton of ram, turned off the GC, and re-booted the servers every day.

>> Isn't segfault a pretty healthy outcome to program?

Found the Erlang user.