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Boffins debunk study claiming certain languages (cough, C, PHP, JS...) lead to more buggy code than others

JohnFen

Re: And they get paid money to do this?

"Journos must bear a lot of the guilt for that."

Indeed they are. In fact, it's so bad that every researcher I've worked for has considered them harmful and avoided talking to them as far as possible, because they usually report studies in a way that seriously misrepresents the study, thus actively misleading the public.

You can see it for yourself pretty much every day. The next time that you see an article about "Scientists prove X", take the time to actually read the paper that the article is talking about. There's a 90% chance that the paper doesn't say what the article says it does. And there's a shockingly high chance that it says the opposite.

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