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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
bsdphk@fosstodon.org ("Poul-Henning Kamp") wrote:
If you program, you should read this piece.
"Ada's successes — the aircraft that have not crashed, the railway signalling systems that have not failed, the missile guidance software that has not misguided — are invisible precisely because they are successes. The languages that failed visibly, in buffer overflows and null pointer exceptions and data races and security vulnerabilities, generated the discourse. [Ada did not]"