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Re:1/0 = 0 by garmaine on Friday August 10, 2018 @06:46PM (#17737241)
Well, except for kernel panics and hardware errors...
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Re:1/0 = 0 by jeremyjh on Friday August 10, 2018 @06:53PM (#17737281)
You can write user code in Pony that will cause a kernel panic or hardware error?
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Re:1/0 = 0 by spooneybarger on Friday August 10, 2018 @07:06PM (#17737328)
Yes. Hardware errors, can't really protect from that or a kernel panic. A kernel panic is a panic in non-pony code.
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Re:1/0 = 0 by mpolsz on Saturday August 11, 2018 @02:18AM (#17738619)
> You can write user code in Pony that will cause a kernel panic or hardware error?

You can always (as in OS with lazy allocation) allocate enough memory to get OOM no matter how safe your language is.

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Re:1/0 = 0 by garmaine on Friday August 10, 2018 @08:27PM (#17737614)
It may be forced to error as a result of one.
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