From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,28cd155693714664 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-18 14:00:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!jobone!dailyplanet.srl.ford.com!eccws12.dearborn.ford.com!not-for-mail From: John Kern Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Faulty languages and Liability Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 16:02:27 -0400 Organization: Visteon Coropration Message-ID: <3D0F91D3.87CDBDF7@NOSPAM.visteon.com> References: <3D0DE5E2.5010904@mail.com> Reply-To: jkern3@NOSPAM.visteon.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 19.51.198.11 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en]C-c32f404p (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en, en-GB, de, fr, ja, ko, zh Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:26305 Date: 2002-06-18T16:02:27-04:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > > No rational person is going to haul you into court because you use C++. > Somebody who hauls you into court because your software blew up may > bring up the issue of language as _one_ of a series of issues regarding > the reliability of your development process. I presume that if they > say you didn't use Ada, you will also didn't use plain C. Presumably > you will also show that you were not programming in C using a compiler > that happened to be a C++ compiler. > I could see being attacked for not using a "validated" compiler. Are there any validated C or C++ compilers? I wouldn't know. Are the languages standardized enough to allow a validation suite?