Re: Not to incite a language war but apparently the Corona lockdown was based on 13 year old undocumented C-Code

[Optikos <ZUERCHER_Andreas@outlook.com>]

On Saturday, May 16, 2020 at 5:31:17 PM UTC-5, Niklas Holsti wrote:
> On 2020-05-11 21:49, Rick Newbie wrote:
> > This link is probably not reported in the MSM very much but I think it's 
> > relevant. Not that I believe that Ada would have magically made 
> > everything better, but to base the decision to destroy the Western 
> > economies on code written in the C language that isn't even commented is 
> > somewhat out of dystopian fantasy. There's a reason C is not used in 
> > safety critical applications.
> > I want to share this article here before it gets buried in the memory hole
> > 
> > 
> > https://chrisvoncsefalvay.com/2020/05/09/imperial-covid-model/
> 
> A post on comp.risks points to a different opinion, which includes a 
> discussion of why the above "review" is mistaken:
> 
>  
> https://philbull.wordpress.com/2020/05/10/why-you-can-ignore-reviews-of-scientific-code-by-commercial-software-developers/amp/
> 
> Some of the points made were already made in the comp.lang.ada 
> discussion, but there are also others.

(sigh) Code smells in the source code are code smells in the source code itself, regardless of whomever the speaker is and regardless of whichever imprimatur of letters do or don't follow their name.  Niklas, you really are defending some sort of elite priesthood that lesser unwashed masses shall be unworthy to critique.  I'd rather cheer Anatoly's work onward than hear more about how the incumbent priesthood is rightly teflon coated and that the unwashed masses shall not dare to scratch the High Priesthood's perfect teflon.

Hopefully your URLs will spark greater productive debate instead of stifle it.