An approach to efficient, fault tolerant programming
David C. Pflasterer · ACM SIGPLAN Notices · 1978
In the past software reliability has sometimes been accomplished by an interpreter. The benefits of an interpretive approach have been it's susceptibility to fault tolerance, i.e. it's error detecting and correcting capabilities, Interpreters historically are too slow to be used as the execution complex in a production environment, however.An interpretive based mecharism is proposed in this paper to allow 1) fault tolerance within both the testing and production environment (i.e. the interpreter continues to provide at least a minimum of services even within a hostile environment), and 2) suitable efficiency within a production environment.