From: Per Sandberg <per.sandberg@bredband.net>
Subject: A scary story from the real world.
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:33:36 +0100
Date: 2007-11-09T18:33:36+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0Q0Zi.409$CT3.318@newsfet01.ams> (raw)
I was on a conference this week and that opened my eyes on the complete
ignorance of good compilers and languages in some the Reliable SW
communities.
http://www.issre2007.hv.se/extra/pod/
There was lots of talks about on how to detect values out of bounds and
other problems that reasonable languages with type-system would find
probably at compile time.
One Microsoft person said "we had lots of crashes in the system and the
cause of that was that the driver vendors did not look on the return
code from functions"
Then the blamed the poor programmer for not reading the secret "users
manual".
/Per
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2007-11-09 17:33 Per Sandberg [this message]
2007-11-09 20:46 ` A scary story from the real world Jerry
2007-11-09 21:15 ` Per Sandberg
2007-11-09 21:25 ` Larry Kilgallen
2007-11-10 23:03 ` Jerry
2007-11-11 0:11 ` tmoran
2007-11-11 8:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-11-12 7:36 ` Harald Korneliussen
2007-11-12 8:27 ` Brian May
2007-11-12 13:04 ` Stephen Leake
2007-11-12 15:09 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-11-11 14:24 ` Brian Drummond
2007-11-09 22:09 ` anon
2007-11-10 0:06 ` Brian May
2007-11-10 5:44 ` Larry Kilgallen
2007-11-10 21:40 ` Harald Korneliussen
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