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FFP999
960 days ago
So life critical software will continue to have completely avoidable bugs in it, got it.
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sitzkrieg
960 days ago
it is possible to write bug free code in many compiled languages
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FFP999
960 days ago
This is just simply not so, or at best, the odds of writing a nontrivial bug free program in any language are negligible. Also, we are talking specifically of C, C++, and Zig here. Three compiled languages among hundreds.
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karmakaze
960 days ago
Only if your name is Knuth--put your money where your mouth is.
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sitzkrieg
958 days ago
i enjoyed this laugh, thank you
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waych
960 days ago
But nobody does?
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FFP999
960 days ago
It's a job security thing. Otherwise you deliver the perfect program and then there's no need for you anymore.
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pdimitar
960 days ago
Nope, we the humans are just not that good at programming.
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FFP999
960 days ago
I was being facetious. It's kind of understandable if we're still bad at programming, we haven't been doing it for very long, just since WWII really.
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