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Umm, who is qualified to use Excel if both scientists and economists frequently have errors in their published works? https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2

• rvba 6y ago
  Umm, who is qualified to write programs in any programming language, if both programmers and developers frequently have errors in their code? https://cve.mitre.org/cve/ https://cve.mitre.org/cve/
  • ClumsyPilot 6y ago
    That exactly right, noone is. Thats why noone uses C++ or javascript in safety critical devices Even in 'normal' industry its is a huge problem and we need safer languages, i.e. Rust (merits to be seen)
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    • TickleSteve 6y ago
      Err... C & C++ are the primary languages used in typical safety-critical systems. I've used it. JS... of course no one uses that mainly because the abstraction level is too high, the number of layers of non-safety-critical code massively outweighs the application code. The critical thing about safety-critical code isn't really about the code... its the whole development process. Implementation is just one small part of that process.
    • rvba 6y ago
      People went to the moon and came back long before Rust existed. Lots of operating systems were written in C or C++ and they allowed to achieve many things.
    • dahart 6y ago
      > Thats why noone uses C++ or javascript in safety critical devices Ooh, no that's fairly incorrect. Javascript for sure is less common because it's the web browser language, but C and C++ are used all the time in embedded safety critical designs.
• FranzFerdiNaN 6y ago
  There is of course a difference between complicated scientific models and someone budgeting some expenses.