<p dir="ltr">All joking aside, I'm afraid we must face the reality that the kind of programmer who is willing to go through great lengths to get reasonably correct and maintainable code is the exception, not the norm. Even in fields where extreme levels of certainty and confidence are required (think avionics, medical devices, nuclear installation, weapons), the preferred strategy still seems to be rigid processes and lots of manual labor. Obviously events like the Ariane 5 incidents aren't helpful there.</p>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 20, 2016 8:30 AM, "M Farkas-Dyck" <<a href="mailto:m.farkasdyck@gmail.com">m.farkasdyck@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 19/10/2016, Tobias Dammers <<a href="mailto:tdammers@gmail.com">tdammers@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Consider this: the most popular programming languages overall are<br>
> (arguably) PHP and Java, despite being almost half a century behind the<br>
> state of the art of programming language design in many ways. Ask yourself<br>
> why that is (and no, I haven't fully figured this one out myself either).<br>
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Some people like to be tied up and whipped; i think it's the same phenomenon.<br>
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