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In article <4243.2805b94a@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> klimas@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com writes:
>	Some info that I picked up from a company doing a lot of big
>	project work with C++ (i.e. strong type checking language) was
>	that postmortems on their project revealed only 10% of their
>	errors were captured by strong type checking.

This is a perfect example of engineering skills that have been learned
through hard efforts and then rejected by practitioners who refuse to
be engineers.

In any other field of engineering, a 10% increase in safety would always
be applied.  To reject it would be grounds for lawsuits, at least.

(Well, it did take a while before the auto industry accepted that lesson.
And one of the fallouts of the Reagan era is lower safety standards in
the auto industry.  Hmm.....)
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Norman Diamond       diamond@tkov50.enet.dec.com
If this were the company's opinion, I wouldn't be allowed to post it.