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I am not sure I understand your argument. Using a high-level language doesn't mean one wouldn't follow other best-practices.

• weland 13y ago
  Having the bug end up in production could have been avoided simply through adequate testing and verification. I fail to see how a higher-level language helps with that. The fact that the programmers might have had less stuff to worry about and, therefore, saved their concentration for more critical parts of the code, is hardly direct evidence that the bug could not have been introduced. It can equally well be argued that a higher-level language would have attracted programmers with less experience in mission-critical code, who would have failed to grasp even the possibility of bugs more subtle than this one.