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From: Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org>
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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.       |
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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