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From: cross@augusta.math.psu.edu (Dan Cross)
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Subject: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of
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In article <3b690498.1111845720@news.worldonline.nl>,
Richard Bos <info@hoekstra-uitgeverij.nl> wrote:
>Yes, and the seat belt actually nicely illustrates Kaz's point.
>
>Immediately after the seat belt was introduced, the number of fatalities
>in accidents plummeted.
>
>The years after, the number slowly rose again, because drivers adapted
>to the new safety level seat belts provided and were willing to take
>risks they wouldn't have taken without them.

Yes, but would the average car driver buy a car without seat belts now?
Assuming the answer is, ``no...'' why would the average programmer choose
to use a programming language with seat-belt like features?

>The nature of the fatalities have changed, yes. Nowadays, it's mostly
>innocent bystanders that get killed, not the driver that flies through
>the windscreen.

Very sad, but undoubtedly true.  :-(  I consider myself very lucky to
live in a place where I don't have to use a car to get anywhere (New
York City).

Going back to programming, can we guess that as the number of programming
related defects goes down, the number of design related defects rises?  Or
is it that we're no longer hiding those design related defects behind our
programming errors?

	- Dan C.