Re: Safety-Critical Systems Developed Using C++

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

You'll get a lot of argument there from this crowd! :-)

I had a ten year study of error rates in embedded code for safety critical
systems. Moving to Ada reduced the error rates by a factor of four. Same
programmers. Same problem domain. Same sort of system architecture. No way
around it. Ada's compile time checking, strong typing, etc., reduced the
error rates. And not by just a little.

It's hard to argue with data that demonstrates a reduced error rate. All
programmers make mistakes. Stronger checking up front catches more of them
and reduces the cost of fixing them.

MDC

k_e_n_s_a_i@my-deja.com wrote:

> I suppose it's irrelevant, but the integrity of a program depends on
> the skill of the programmers rather than the language it is coded in.
> Any syntactically correct language should be equally stable, excluding
> compiler flaws, etc.
>
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