So some researchers were looking into how to get MS Word to recover when it gets hung and came up with a general framework to allow users to attempt to get hung applications unstuck.
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/08/jolt-framework-lets-users-force-some-hung-programs-to-recover.ars
This is a great case of a truly useful tool that can be 'an enabler' for bad programming practices. Surely, this is a good tool for end-users. But developers providing this as a workaround for problematic code can be a bad strategy.
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