On 28/04/2018 19:16, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On 2018-04-28, Gareth's Downstairs Computer
>  wrote:
>
>> Computers are a complex machine to be understood and
>> enjoyed for their own sake, and not to be used for
>> application, and a pox on the C language that dissembles
>> the real underlying machine!  :-)
>
> Then you must really hate high-level languages that do all
> sorts of things behind your back

Hate is too strong a word but, yes, unless you have access
to source code all the way down to the machine itself you
can never be sure of your ground in safety critical
applications.

For example, I was contracted to work on the development
of a CANBus steering mechanism which used one of the
object repository. When I wished to check the efficacy
of my proposed changes by drilling down to everything
that would be affected by the change, I was refused access
to the source of the already implemented classes.

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