> > Nothing here backs the assertion that good programmers are more likely to create more bugs per line of code written. > I said that good programmers create

> > Nothing here backs the assertion that good programmers are more likely to create more bugs per line of code written. > I said that good programmers create more bugs on the whole. Well if good programmers write more code, then sure, that follows quite nicely. If you don't normalize for lines of code written, though, then I'm not sure I follow what the point of that assertion is. If a good programmer writes 10x the code but 1.5x the bugs, I don't think it's fair or meaningful for this discussion to claim that the good programmer created more bugs on the whole. > We need surgery so that people don't die. You probably don't need to recover from malloc failing. Software definitely runs in places where lives can be affected and lost.