From "The Dark Path": > Now, ask yourself why these defects happen too often. If your answer is that our languages don’t prevent them, then I strongly suggest

From "The Dark Path": > Now, ask yourself why these defects happen too often. If your answer is that our languages don’t prevent them, then I strongly suggest that you quit your job and never think about being a programmer again; because defects are never the fault of our languages. Defects are the fault of programmers. It is programmers who create defects – not languages. http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2017/01/11/TheDarkPath.html http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2017/01/11/TheDarkPath.... I think that software defects happen too often because the most widely used programming languages don't do enough to prevent them. That makes me the audience of this statement. And he says that I should abandon programming. I think that's rather presumptuous of him. (I also think that on average programmers aren't careful enough and don't spend enough time making sure their stuff doesn't break, but I see that as primarily an economic problem. Most software companies are rewarded more for delivering features than closing the security holes. We can attack that problem either by finding some way to convince software vendors to pay for the tremendously expensive effort of testing software, or we can reduce the effort required by using stronger type systems and formal methods. The latter seems more realistic and attainable.)