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On 6/21/2012 3:37 PM, Jeffrey Carter wrote:
>
> I once knew a C coder, and a mediocre C coder at that, who was coding
> for pacemakers. I hope I never need one.


Hi Jeffrey,

How true.  Remember the Therac-25 incident in the 1980's where C pointer 
problems killed a number of people with huge doses of X-rays?

Jerry