Software bugs aren't inevitable

Sybren Stuvel sybrenUSE at YOURthirdtower.com.imagination
Fri Sep 16 11:24:31 EDT 2005


Terry Hancock enlightened us with:
> This is ludicrous sophistry. The technical reason for having ANY high
> level languages is "psychological".  Computers are happier with binary
> code, over ANY language that must be interpreted.

Computers aren't happy. They couldn't care less about the programming
language.

> Programming languages are an interface to Human minds, so the
> argument that one system of representation is easier to understand
> is an argument that that system is *better* in that it is a better
> interface.

Well said! I'm going to remember that one :)

Sybren
-- 
The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? 
                                             Frank Zappa



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