[OT] Walter about compilers

[Don]

On Wednesday, 23 January 2013 at 04:56:11 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> On Tuesday, 22 January 2013 at 14:44:26 UTC, Era Scarecrow 
> wrote:
>> It's been quoted that for every 10 lines of code there's a bug.
>
> It is said a lot. I'd like to see hard data on that one. I'd 
> bet that it greatly vary from one programmer to another, and 
> probably from one language to another.


It definitely does.

"There has been no error reported in TeX since 1994 or 1995"  -- 
Knuth, 2002.
There were 7 bugs in TeX reported between 1982 and 1995.
Tex has a lot more than 70 lines of code :-)