Re: Software Quality in Science

[Brian Drummond <brian_drummond@btconnect.com>]

On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:39:08 -0800 (PST), Hibou57 (Yannick Duch�ne)
<yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> wrote:

>On 9 f�v, 22:51, Jerry <lancebo...@qwest.net> wrote:
>> Here is the link in the Guardian article to the original work:
>>
>> http://www.leshatton.org/Documents/Texp_ICSE297.pdf
>Waw, this one is really not a love-letter :
>
>After it introduced common pitfalls which may await the unwaries, it
>goes straight to this words :
>> In contrast, predicting the existence of a new sub-atomic particle
>> seems a relatively straightforward exercise.
>
>I surprised (if confirmed) that FORTRAN (which I've never experienced)
>is even less safe than C.

It certainly can be. 

Mis-spell a variable name, and you have just declared a new one, not accessed
the one you expected... (There are usually ways to turn implicit declarations
off, or make them compile time errors or warnings.)

- Brian