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Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Also having a validated compiler doesn't seem to matter as much as it
>> did in the last century. ;-)
> 
> Interestingly, within the safety-critical domain, "validation" (or
> "qualification", which is a more specialized term) means more than ACATS
> tests can offer, and outside of this domain nobody cares about it anyway.

In other domains, programmers who care about validation 
will be suffer from despair and ridicule.