Lambda the Ultimate

This week there were two item in the tech blogs that were both programming language and both related; the 'Radiation resistant Quine' and the Apple SSL error caused. Both deal with a small number of characters and the resilience of the program and language to errors.

It raises a question - can we build resilience into our programming languages?

I think we can build more resilient programs, the ruby example was designed to be resilient, but as far as I know resilience is not a feature of Ruby, any more than it is C.

Any thoughts?