>To be clear about it, I'm not advocating Thundering Train Programming as THE technique for whole applications. But I have the feeling that certain, as such identified, parts of applications can be safely done using this technique. A crash in such a part is, well, an error message and eventually some data damage. The data and the code will need some repair indeed. But is that really always a bad thing?

Peter;

It depends! Does the data have value? Can the customer wait for a repair?

Tom