"Tom" <tom.primozic@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I guess Joe Armstrong (of Erlang fame) would have to say a lot about how
>> to
>> deal with failure properly. According to him, and the seemingly 
>> successful
>> Erlang philosophy (which is, "let it crash"), attempts to locally handle
>> errors are exactly the wrong approach. See his very insightful thesis.
>
> Would you please be so kind as to appoint us to the very thesis you have 
> in
> mind?

Sorry, yes. You can find it on his homepage:

http://www.sics.se/~joe/thesis/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf

- Andreas