Re: Safety-Critical Systems Developed Using C++

[Marin David Condic <mcondic.auntie.spam@acm.org>]

Mario Grgic wrote:

> Well, most operating systems and web servers have been developed in C/C++
> and they are very mission and safety critical.
>

How many people die if a web server goes down? :-)

Not exactly my interpretation of a "safety critical" system. Most OS's and web
servers can withstand a fatal error that causes a restart or reboot and not
much is at stake. Obviously, money could be lost by eBay if they are down for
any substantial time, but it just doesn't seem to me to be the same thing as a
plane falling out of the sky because a flight control did a divide-by-zero.

MDC
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