There are things worse than crashing

posted by  kevyn (54)  8 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

It's annoying when an application crashes, but there are worse things. In my opinion, for end-user applications (and not mission critical apps) :

- The best thing is for the program to just work as expected. - a crash is better than data-corruption: When a program crashes, you can at least restart.  Data-corruption can cause much larger loss. - debuggable crashes are better than non-debuggable crashes. A crash that catches that occurs immediately at the point of the bug is generally pretty easy to triage. (This is what