Comment by lanstin

Also if you live near to high quality, it is easier to keep quality high. I worked in one place with a lot of C servers. Any time they segfaulted, the developer got an email with the back trace and a link to the core. Counts were kept and managers made sure people knew to fix them. For my code, it was always easy to fix each segfault. They were rare and usually the stack trace showed all that was needed.

I also worked in a place that was far from quality and they had totally given up on memory leaks and most segfaults. If the segfault happened deterministically enough, it might be fixed. infinite loops would be fixed. But sporadic segfaults were just ignored. It was too hard to get close enough to quality to make it worth fixing.