A proper language comparison...

[Max Samukha]

On Friday, 26 July 2013 at 05:13:37 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 7/25/2013 7:19 PM, bearophile wrote:
>> You don't want a stack overflow in the code that controls your 
>> car brakes (this is not a
>> totally invented example).
>
> Sadly, it isn't:
>
> http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/07/24/hackers-reveal-nasty-new-car-attacks-with-me-behind-the-wheel-video/
>
> Software controlled brakes with no override? Madness!

Only death statistics for a sufficiently long usage period could 
tell whether software + override is safer than purely software. 
Note that software + override is significantly more complex, 
which means a decrease in reliability of the system in whole.