[article] Language Design Deal Breakers

[Timon Gehr]

On 05/27/2013 01:12 AM, Ziad Hatahet wrote:
> On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Timon Gehr <timon.gehr at gmx.ch
> <mailto:timon.gehr at gmx.ch>> wrote:
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>     IIRC the damage done by software bugs to US economy alone is
>     estimated to be around 60 billion a year. One billion damage done by
>     dereferenceable null pointers appears to be an optimistic estimate.
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> Interesting. Source? :)
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> Ziad
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Eg. here:
http://www.ashireporter.org/HomeInspection/Articles/Software-Errors-Cost-U-S-Economy-59-5-Billion-Annually/740

I think many other studies estimate the cost to be higher.