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Case Crab:

>> For example,
>> the JSF AV C++ Coding Standard, which is intended to limit the unsafe
>> features of C++, contains 221 rules.
...
>> The NASA Ada Flight Software coding guidelines contain 14 rules.
>> The intent of both coding standards is to produce software safe enough
>> to use for airborne avionics systems.
> 
> Interesting that one organization has 221 rules while the other has
> only 14.

Probably the difference is more that the 221 rules are needed for "securizing" 
C++ and the 14 ones for Ada ?
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