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From: Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com>
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Subject: Re: += in ada
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Robert I. Eachus wrote:

>Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler wrote:
>
>> Well, that doesn't really matter. The C zealots - at least the ones I
>> know - claim one can write code with zero bugs in C when one is
>> careful enough.
>>=20
>> Well, one way or another, they're right, too. :->
>
>Someday, I'll meet a C programmer that good.

Obviously you missed the part of the sentence I did not write. You
wouldn't meet him because he is still trying to be careful. :)

>OS version or rewrite.  Most of the C code we had was closer to one=20
>known bug per 100 lines.  Fortunately most of it was in small drivers.

That still makes 10 bugs per application or so... ;-)


Vinzent.