Posts by Jesus Andersson

Mars rover Opportunity shuns dodgy flash chips, relies on RAM

And what happens in the future?

https://xkcd.com/1504/

Ballmer disses Oracle's decision to buy Sun

More innovation?!

"You'll see us innovating in search,"

Just like they innovated Windows to look like an OSX clone?

Upgrade drags Stealth Bomber IT systems into the 90s

Modernization?

It is understandable that the USAF might have to reconsider their choice of programming language and switch to more modern languages.

But C?!

C isn't exactly reknown for being a forgiving language, and it has at least 1024 ways of doing really bad things in a single line of code, really interesting choice of weapon if I might say so. Why not a safer langue like eg. Eiffel with design by contract and automatic garbage collection?

Or maybe the pilots simply like to live on the edge, and they wouldn't hear of anything that might imply the use of the word safety?