Re: [Lit.] Buffer overruns

From: Douglas A. Gwyn (DAGwyn_at_null.net)
Date: 01/10/05 

Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 23:51:07 -0500

Bryan Olson wrote:
> Douglas A. Gwyn wrote:
> > Funny, it worked fine when my organizations did it.

> I thought Gwyn was with Defense, where it worked so well
> that they coined the term "software crisis". C worked so
> well that they developed Ada.

The US DoD is a huge outfit, not all of which works
in the same manner. The application of software
engineering discipline worked quite well in all
projects I've been associated with that made an
effort to follow it. Of course, if you don't apply
a discipline then the discipline (one part of which
Dijkstra expounded) cannot help you.

Ada was not a response to C, and indeed it appeared
at the time of the competition which resulted in Ada
that the "green" (I think it was called) proponents
came from a Pascal background and were utterly
unfamiliar with C.

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