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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,31c0457c1c47fc2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-22 10:11:05 PST From: "Martin Dowie" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <27085883.0110191714.784d3d25@posting.google.com> <9r1bkl$4po$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Subject: Re: Have you ever had a bug caused by... Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 18:03:20 +0100 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 NNTP-Posting-Host: ed125012.sd.edinbr.gmav.gecm.com Message-ID: <3bd44e29$1@pull.gecm.com> X-Trace: 22 Oct 2001 17:49:45 GMT, ed125012.sd.edinbr.gmav.gecm.com Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!btnet-peer1!btnet-feed5!btnet!newreader.ukcore.bt.net!pull.gecm.com!ed125012.sd.edinbr.gmav.gecm.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15033 Date: 2001-10-22T18:03:20+01:00 List-Id: > I wish I still had the link to a study done by Lucent concerning C errors in > one of their big switches. The bulk of the most common errors were things > that couldn't happen in Ada. Their answer? Publish coding standards and > audit the code by hand. Let's see..... My fully burdened labor cost is how > many dollars an hour? And a compiler can do the checking at how many dollars > an hour? And if I field a product with errors in it, that could cost me how > many dollars in warranty costs and lawsuits? Hmmmmmmmm...... Why is it I'm > insisting on using C again??? :-) I have access to that report - do you wish it e-mailed to you? (~290k pdf file)