File Pro And Bus Errors

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In the relative spacial/temporal region of
Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 11:44:27AM -0400, J. Ryan Kelley achieved the spontaneous
generation of the following:
> > Good Morning,
> >
> > I've been working with Filepro for about 8 months now after recently 
> > graduating from college with a degree in Computer Science.  I've had 
> > experiences working with everything from C, and C++ to Fortran, to 
> > Lisp, and countless other languages, however never with FilePro until 
> > I started at my current position.  When I first started working with 
> > Filepro, I'll admit, I was impressed with how easy it was to step in 
> > and start working.  In fact, I was doing some programming in my first 
> > few hours on my first day.  The primary thing that I have found 
> > unsettling from day one, however, is the presence of the dreaded Bus 
> > Error.  I'm quite familiar with Bus Errors (aka Segmentation Faults) 
> > from my days working in C, where attempting to access a memory 
> > location you don't have permissions to access would cause this problem 
> > and dump you out.  It was usually caused by an improperly indexed 

Bus errors almost always relate to mathematical problems, and are quite
separate from segfaults, which -are- usually due to memory/pointer
mismanagement.

They're -not- the same thing, and there is no "aka" about it.  If that's
something you 'learned' while getting your CS degree, I feel more justified
than ever in my disparagement of our formalised educational system.

Just how much C/C++ didn't you take, anyway?

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