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Comment by lmm

11 years ago

Straight-up C is not at all suitable for safety-critical software. C plus various bolt-on tools for static analysis and the like can be usable, but is always going to be less effective (IMO) than a unified language where every tool is working according to the same rules.

There might be a few legitimate use cases for C, but I've seen people pick it for the wrong reason so often (and using C because "it would be performant" is entirely invalid IME).

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TickleSteve  11 years ago

You would have to argue with the overwhelming majority of safety-critical software that is and has been for decades, written in C...

Of course, static analysis is always used in combination with proper coding style... but that is just the normal (professional) C development environment.

  • Jtsummers  11 years ago

    > You would have to argue with the overwhelming majority of safety-critical software that is and has been for decades, written in C...

    > Of course, static analysis is always used in combination with proper coding style... but that is just the normal (professional) C development environment.

    >> Straight-up C is not at all suitable for safety-critical software. C plus various bolt-on tools for static analysis and the like can be usable, but is always going to be less effective (IMO) than a unified language where every tool is working according to the same rules.

    Pretty sure you've just restated GP's point in your second paragraph.