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From: Jerry <lanceboyle@qwest.net>
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Subject: Re: A scary story from the real world.
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:46:00 -0800
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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