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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Not to incite a language war but apparently the Corona lockdown
 was based on 13 year old undocumented C-Code
Date: Sun, 17 May 2020 01:31:13 +0300
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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.

-- 
Niklas Holsti
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