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by marvy 4186 days ago
I don't know who has time for that, but it's far more reliable than auditing source code. Two people using two different languages are not likely to code up the same bug, but overlooking a bug in code someone else wrote is easy. Besides, coding things up yourself is not much slower than a full audit: understanding other people's code is hard. There's a reason that many developers have an urge to throw out "legacy" code and redo it from scratch.