From: Shark8 <OneWingedShark@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Language ranking
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 09:42:53 -0700
Date: 2014-04-04T09:42:53-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <hiB%u.92472$D64.80870@fx29.iad> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <533e6da0$0$6705$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net>
On 04-Apr-14 01:30, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> On 04/04/14 03:19, Shark8 wrote:
>> On 03-Apr-14 17:43, Jeffrey Carter wrote:
>>>
>>> Will it be 2064 before we get government regulation requiring safer
>>> language features?
>>
>> That's a seriously bad idea.
>> Having government regulation would be asking for corruption all along
>> that bureaucratic chain.
>
> *Liability* in software business will suffice.
>
> Regulation, or Law, that would require software to have measurable
> properties, and such that would allow customers to sue.
Customers can already sue.
Suing is a civil action; regulation, by definition, is a criminal case
(in that of a valid regulation, on the part of the accused; in the case
of illegitimate regulation on the part of the accuser).
Heck, there's already *criminal* law that covers a vast majority of
these: fraud.
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-02 7:38 Language ranking Simon Wright
2014-04-02 20:25 ` Simon Clubley
2014-04-03 15:05 ` Robert A Duff
2014-04-03 16:26 ` Shark8
2014-04-03 23:12 ` Robert A Duff
2014-04-03 23:24 ` Shark8
2014-04-04 13:43 ` Robert A Duff
2014-04-04 21:19 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-04-04 22:21 ` Shark8
2014-04-04 23:21 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2014-04-05 0:03 ` Shark8
2014-04-05 0:40 ` Robert A Duff
2014-04-03 17:13 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-04-03 23:14 ` Robert A Duff
2014-04-04 23:12 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2014-04-03 21:20 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-04-04 22:59 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2014-04-03 21:23 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-04-03 23:21 ` Robert A Duff
2014-04-04 0:43 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-04-04 1:19 ` Shark8
2014-04-04 8:30 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-04-04 16:42 ` Shark8 [this message]
2014-04-05 7:41 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2014-04-05 9:39 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-04-05 9:45 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-04-04 3:44 ` tmoran
2014-04-04 21:14 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-04-05 2:16 ` tmoran
2014-04-04 23:17 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2014-04-04 3:44 ` tmoran
2014-04-04 22:37 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2014-04-04 22:57 ` Adam Beneschan
2014-04-04 23:25 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
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