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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Language ranking
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 16:14:54 -0500
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<tmoran@acm.org> wrote in message news:lhl9r4$icn$2@speranza.aioe.org...
>> 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.

Hasn't it already happened? Toyota comes to mind. I think they got off easy.

Maybe we need a lot more death - certainly won't be long. (Just look at how 
GM decided to cover up a bad $0.57 part of ten years while people died. 
Especially by redesigning it and not changing the part number so that safety 
regulators couldn't tell that something was different.) But I fear that the 
blame will be placed everywhere but the real culprits ("software is hard" --  
sure, if it's managed badly; "people didn't follow regulations" -- sure, but 
why should people be in the loop at all for software -- that's the job of 
compilers and tools, not people. Etc.)

                             Randy.