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On 21/04/13 18:47, Simon Waters wrote:
Given that most economists seem to think the economy can not be modelled accurately in the first place I cant imagine them worrying about coding minutiae.On 21/04/13 17:42, bad apple wrote:My (pedantic) point is only that it is impossible for the number of source code checkers to have no upper limit. Cardinality and set theory tell us that, as well as common sense!Agreed, although the limit could be quite large with enough imagination.Who's David Wheeler? Or I guess, which one? I googled but there are many candidates with no particular one being the obvious one.Author of the Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO, and flawfinder, amongst many other bits. www.dwheeler.com If he uses your code, and your software is free software (for which he has a strong preference), and his tools support the language in which it is written, he will probably have checked it for common insecure coding issues, and typically fixed any he found or at least fixed one example of each type of flaw for you to get the idea.
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