If you're writing mission critical software, you don't scribble all over memory by writing through unvalidated pointers. There's "software quality is hard", and there's "you're an idiot".
What you're asking for, fundamentally, is for people not to make mistakes. You probably don't hold that opinion in your professional life (yeah, I'm assuming you're a programmer). Why here?
There's not even remotely the same magnitude of error between those two cases in my mind. One you can miss by accident, the other you're actively doing.
What you're asking for, fundamentally, is for people not to make mistakes. You probably don't hold that opinion in your professional life (yeah, I'm assuming you're a programmer). Why here?