From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 11:00:51 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <951e93a6c7f0111c7af4b4be4cfce9ac@brasstown.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: <20121122154746.GA2239@polynum.com> References: <2522920406.enqueue@as-laptop> <0031c5cf57e92ce48e169455b02639be@quintile.net> <8oqsn9xcur.ln2@news.homelinux.net> <3ebf4304d1a080d803608453b2dd8981@kw.quanstro.net> <20121122154746.GA2239@polynum.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] c++ Topicbox-Message-UUID: e0f8602c-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Thu Nov 22 10:48:35 EST 2012, tlaronde@polynum.com wrote: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 03:54:11PM +0100, Hugo Rivera wrote: > > > > Of course, it depends on the problem considered. But I think the big > > problems in the world have little to do with programming languages, > > particularly c++, which is the topic at hand. > > But you are wrong... There are numerous big and desastrous problems > caused because of the inteconnections, the almost instantaneous and > worldwide speculation, not to count instantaneous and worldwide bugs, > all linked to programming. > > This is not "butterfly's wings" in Far East that can cause a > earthquake in Occident, but a software bug in something used or relied > upon everywhere... putting aside that i don't believe that the big problems like war and hunger have anything to do with programming errors, .... i don't know which bugs you're talking about, but there is little chance that any of us choose the programming language these unknown systems were implemented in. so i see this as a perpetuation of the "clean your plate" argument. it's spurious. and even that aside, can you cite studies that show that the choice of programming language is the dominant term in determining the error rate of the resulting code? - erik