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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Shortage on C / C++ experts
Date: 2 Apr 2007 06:47:59 -0500
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In article <4610a3c8$1@news.post.ch>, Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> kevin cline schrieb:
> 
>>> Any suggestion that C++
>>> is, as a general principle, safer than Ada is simply a fantasy.
>> 
>> It's not safer, AS A GENERAL PRINCIPLE.  But in the hands of experts, C
>> ++ allows compile-time type checking that is impossible in Ada.
> 
> So does Assembler. Problem is that only 1% of C / C++ programmers are 
> experts.

So the problem is how to ensure that only experts are hired by the
company for whom you work.

And the larger problem is how to ensure that only experts are hired
by the manufacturers of airplanes on which you fly.