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From: Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org>
Subject: Re: Software Quality in Science
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:32:43 +0000
Date: 2010-02-15T11:32:43+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1002151124260.17315@Bluewhite64.example.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <usk9917wf.fsf@stephe-leake.org>

On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Stephen Leake wrote:

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|"[..]                                                                |
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|The programmers still have to specify the right switches, and pay    |
|attention to the results, and know how to fix them, which is a       |
|political/management/skill issue, not a language design issue.       |
|                                                                     |
|I know from personal experience that there is a satellite about to be|
|launched who's control code has many remaining C warnings. Sigh."    |
|---------------------------------------------------------------------|

Yes, people are idiots.

Colin Paul Gloster, who used to work for the European Space Agency and
who was forced to use C in a squanderous waste of taxpayers' monies



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-02-15 11:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-09 21:20 Software Quality in Science Jerry
2010-02-09 21:51 ` Jerry
2010-02-09 22:00   ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-10  4:13     ` Thomas Wicklund
2010-02-10  5:24       ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-09 23:43   ` Robert A Duff
2010-02-10  1:01     ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-02-10 14:34       ` Stephen Leake
2010-02-10 15:09         ` Martin
2010-02-10 16:37         ` Robert A Duff
2010-02-10 17:05           ` Martin
2010-02-10 13:13     ` Florian Weimer
2010-02-10 13:30       ` (see below)
2010-02-10 13:38       ` Martin
2010-02-15 11:20       ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-02-15 14:52         ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-02-15 18:48           ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-02-10 14:29     ` Stephen Leake
2010-02-10 14:38       ` Hyman Rosen
2010-02-10 16:24         ` Robert A Duff
2010-02-15 11:32       ` Colin Paul Gloster [this message]
2010-02-15 12:19         ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-02-10 13:55   ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-02-10 14:21     ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-10 22:52     ` Bob Spooner
2010-02-11  8:29       ` Rick
2010-02-11 22:39   ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-11 23:10     ` Brian Drummond
2010-02-11 23:21       ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-11 23:24         ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-12  0:06         ` Robert A Duff
2010-02-12  0:32           ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-12  7:37           ` Pascal Obry
2010-02-12 10:58           ` Stephen Leake
2010-02-12 15:02             ` Robert A Duff
2010-02-15 10:49           ` Alex R. Mosteo
2010-02-12  7:37         ` Pascal Obry
2010-02-15 12:18       ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-02-15 11:08   ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-02-15 14:43     ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-15 19:01       ` Colin Paul Gloster
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