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From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>
Subject: Re: Win2000 has 63,000 'defects'
Date: 2000/02/15
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On 15 Feb 2000, Hyman Rosen wrote:

> kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) writes:
> > I am convinced that a great many of their defects are coding issues.
>>
> ... snip ...
> 
> Do you have evidence for any of these convictions?

For this one

http://www.lucent.com/minds/techjournal/apr-jun1998/abstract.html

The paper by Yu on "Software Fault Prevention...". 

This also agrees with my own (biased, personal, insert disclaimer here...) 
observations. 

Interestingly, the Erlang guys work in a very similar space and the
language they push as leading to robust systems is dynamically typed. 
Go figure. 

-- Brian