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From: Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>
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Subject: Bug rate and choice of programming language
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 06:22:01 -0700 (PDT)
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Hello,

This is not a troll, really. :-)

By following some links that were posted during the discussion on one
of the Polish programming newsgroups I have found the following page:

http://www.leshatton.org/SCSS_595.html

This page seems to refer to some paper with an assessment of
programming languages for safety critical systems with the conclusion
that the choice of programming language has little impact on the
resulting bug rate and what actually matters is the programmer's
fluency in using it.
Or this is at least what I understand from the paper's description.

Unfortunately the paper itself is not available.

Is any of you aware of the content of this paper?
Is it possible for you to objectively comment on it?

References to other research results in this domain would be highly
welcome. The above paper alone is very suggestive, but certainly not
exhaustive.

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Maciej Sobczak * http://www.inspirel.com

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