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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: Re: Language ranking
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 03:44:36 +0000 (UTC)
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> Will it be 2064 before we get government regulation requiring safer language
> features?
    Regulation or product liability - one or the other will start
happening when there's a software bug that painfully hurts a large number
of people.  And it can't be long at this rate before that happens.