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From: "Vinzent Hoefler" <0439279208b62c95f1880bf0f8776eeb@t-domaingrabbing.de>
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Subject: Re: How do I write directly to a memory address?
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 22:24:57 +0100
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Date: 2011-03-03T22:24:57+01:00
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Hyman Rosen wrote:

> On 3/2/2011 6:18 PM, Vinzent Hoefler wrote:
>> How do you count the cost of such incidents?
>
> How do you count the cost of the extra development that would
> be required for all software to come to some standard of not
> having known errors?
>
> As it stands, anyone who wishes to have software written with
> such exactitude is free to pay for it, and many do, in exactly
> the cases you indicated where the cost of error is prohibitively
> high.

Well, let me be sarcastic here and apply some business math. Consider
the 1:10 rule, you'll find:

For each bug you did not find due to lack of design you save $1.
For each bug you did not find due to lack of coding, you save $10.
For each bug you did not find due to lack of testing you save $100.
For each bug you did not find due to lack of customers you save $1000.

Unfortunately, neither not coding nor not delivering the software to
the customer is a viable business option, so you save every penny you can
in design and testing.


Vinzent.

-- 
A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying
razors.
    --  Waldi Ravens