Re: A scary story from the real world.

[Jerry <lanceboyle@qwest.net>]

On Nov 9, 10:33 am, Per Sandberg <per.sandb...@bredband.net> wrote:
> 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

Was Ada even mentioned?
Jerry