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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:29:20 -0500
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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