On Wednesday, 23 January 2013 at 04:56:11 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
On Tuesday, 22 January 2013 at 14:44:26 UTC, Era Scarecrow
wrote:
It's been quoted that for every 10 lines of code there's a bug.
It is said a lot. I'd like to see hard data on that one. I'd
bet that it greatly vary from one programmer to another, and
probably from one language to another.
It definitely does.
"There has been no error reported in TeX since 1994 or 1995" --
Knuth, 2002.
There were 7 bugs in TeX reported between 1982 and 1995.
Tex has a lot more than 70 lines of code :-)
