From: tmoran@acm.org
Subject: Re: Language ranking
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2014 02:16:10 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2014-04-05T02:16:10+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lhnp1a$f5e$1@speranza.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: lhn7ce$1ma$1@loke.gir.dk
> > when there's a software bug that painfully hurts a large number of people.
>
> Hasn't it already happened? Toyota comes to mind. I think they got off easy.
How many people do you know who were hurt enough that they "wrote letters
to their Congressman"? Or insurance companies that charge diffferently
depending on how the software is made.
> blame will be placed everywhere but the real culprits ("software is hard"
As long as people think "no change in software engineering practices
would help", there will be no change in software engineering practices.
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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
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 [this message]
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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