problems/risks due to programming language

[Jeff Lawhorn]

It seems to me that if the program in question had been
thoroughly tested it would not matter if it had been written in
C or Ada or Pascal or anything else.  The bug would have been
found, and AT&T's network would not have been knocked off the
air.  In **EVERY** language it is possible to write valid code
that does not do what the programmer wants.  This is why every
possible code path should be tested before it is placed into a
production system.  Let's hope that AT&T didn't learn not to use
C or Ada or whatever, but that they learned to test their
software better before using it in a production system.
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Jeff Lawhorn
lawhorn at opti.uucp
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