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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|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. |
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|I know from personal experience that there is a satellite about to be|
|launched who's control code has many remaining C warnings. Sigh." |
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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
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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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