[Gllug] Memory Leak Detecting

[Rich Walker]

Bruce Richardson <itsbruce at uklinux.net> writes:

> On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 11:47:34PM +0100, Richard wrote:
>> The extraordinary lengths people go to when they could just use just
>> about any decent language from the 1970s onwards which actually does
>> garbage collection and bounds checking ...
>
> Which you have said before but it'll never have any effect.  From the
> perspective of the people you're trying to reach, it's like saying "Why
> would you choose to ride a bicycle without stabilisers when stabilisers
> have been available for years?"  

Cornering.

> That view may or may not be valid but
> it is extremely entrenched.

There's a wonderful paper from Bell Labs on fault modelling of their
code. They analyse a variety of programs, and look at the faults
found. They point out that most of the discovered faults in C or C++
code simply *can't* happen in Ada.

Unsurprisingly, no-one uses Ada. After all, buggy code is more
efficient.

If anyone sees a software engineering book called "The Case of the
Killer Robot", have a look at the chapter where they analyse the
development group meetings and see how the development language choice
is made...

cheers, Rich.


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