From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Subject: Re: Software Quality in Science
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:29:20 -0500
Date: 2010-02-10T09:29:20-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <usk9917wf.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wcc6366x9em.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com
Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> writes:
> Jerry <lanceboyle@qwest.net> writes:
>
>> Here is the link in the Guardian article to the original work:
>>
>> http://www.leshatton.org/Documents/Texp_ICSE297.pdf
>
> Thanks for the link.
>
>> And this comment which addresses the use of Ada:
>
> Hmm. Looks like it fails to address Ada (or C++)
> due to "lack of space". I skept.
Me too. Paraphrasing Fermat doesn't make it true; it just makes you
look like you are being deliberately mysterious.
>> "In C, note that function prototypes were well used only around 60% of
>> the time and as a result, interface faults accounted for about 24% of
>> the total. In other words, if function prototypes were mandated in all
>> C functions, 24% of all serious faults would disappear.
>
> Surely that's no longer a problem in modern C!?
The programmers still have to specify the right switches, and pay
attention to the results, and know how to fix them, which is a
political/management/skill issue, not a language design issue.
I know from personal experience that there is a satellite about to be
launched who's control code has many remaining C warnings. Sigh.
--
-- Stephe
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Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-09 21:20 Software Quality in Science Jerry
2010-02-09 21:51 ` Jerry
2010-02-09 22:00 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-10 4:13 ` Thomas Wicklund
2010-02-10 5:24 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-09 23:43 ` Robert A Duff
2010-02-10 1:01 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-02-10 14:34 ` Stephen Leake
2010-02-10 15:09 ` Martin
2010-02-10 16:37 ` Robert A Duff
2010-02-10 17:05 ` Martin
2010-02-10 13:13 ` Florian Weimer
2010-02-10 13:30 ` (see below)
2010-02-10 13:38 ` Martin
2010-02-15 11:20 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-02-15 14:52 ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-02-15 18:48 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-02-10 14:29 ` Stephen Leake [this message]
2010-02-10 14:38 ` Hyman Rosen
2010-02-10 16:24 ` Robert A Duff
2010-02-15 11:32 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-02-15 12:19 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-02-10 13:55 ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-02-10 14:21 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-10 22:52 ` Bob Spooner
2010-02-11 8:29 ` Rick
2010-02-11 22:39 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-11 23:10 ` Brian Drummond
2010-02-11 23:21 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-11 23:24 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-12 0:06 ` Robert A Duff
2010-02-12 0:32 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-12 7:37 ` Pascal Obry
2010-02-12 10:58 ` Stephen Leake
2010-02-12 15:02 ` Robert A Duff
2010-02-15 10:49 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2010-02-12 7:37 ` Pascal Obry
2010-02-15 12:18 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-02-15 11:08 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-02-15 14:43 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-15 19:01 ` Colin Paul Gloster
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