C, please die,

[Rob Doyle]

On 12/3/2014 1:47 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
>> Ha! It is to laugh.
>>
>> The DoD closed the AJPO many years ago, and issued waivers to the
>> Ada requirement at the drop of a hat. At some point they did away
>> withthe requirement so that they no longer need to issue waivers.
>
> Wow, that I did not know.
>
> Of course, there is a certain intersection of DoD projects and high
> end avionics - and they tend to be the ones that people do not talk
> about.
> --
> Will

See <http://www.stroustrup.com/JSF-AV-rules.pdf> for a fairly recent
set of coding standards for C++ used by the DoD.

It contains a pretty good discussion on what are bad practices, what are
best practices, and why.

Recognize that this is intended for embedded applications - not web servers.

Rob.