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Re:Near Future of Programming Languages [pdf] by d13 on Monday October 30, 2017 @06:49AM (#15584112)
It's flawed because 99.999% of the time your code will work just fine. Job done. Then one day, "undefined is not a function" and your airplane falls out of the air.
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Re:Near Future of Programming Languages [pdf] by giantsloth on Monday October 30, 2017 @07:51AM (#15584325)
This happens in all languages... look at the Toyota acceleration bug for a real world of example of your hyperbole. They were using MISRA C. Languages dont fix spaghetti, laziness, tight deadlines, bad engineers, etc.
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Re:Near Future of Programming Languages [pdf] by marcosdumay on Monday October 30, 2017 @09:04AM (#15584677)
> This happens in all languages...

To some extent, yes, that happens in all languages. To some extent 10^100 and 1 are both numbers. That does not mean you can even compare them.

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Re:Near Future of Programming Languages [pdf] by AnimalMuppet on Monday October 30, 2017 @01:01PM (#15586713)
I'm not sure you can do spaghetti and still do MISRA C. Doesn't MISRA have some things about goto, cyclomatic complexity, and such?
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