...Just for curiosity, have you any software experience in big software, including maintenance?
How common is this sort of thing? My claim is that with programmers who are experienced in a particular language or syntax,
the readability of the code or particular syntactic constructs in the languages account for few if any of
the bugs.
Far, far more common and serious are problems that are either due to developer's failure to understand how the code was supposed to work, or incompatibilities between the new application/version and existing applications or hardware configurations.Sure, but you can't neglect all the small things that cause you to waste 1 just because something else cause you to waste 10. Especially because it's easy and almost free to choose a readable langage and to enforce some common presentation rules.
The problem of application compatibility is problem the most serious software development problem today. Most products get through unit testing and initial integration testing quite fast; it's when you start testing them together on a machine that has both kinds of networking adapters or both version of SuperAppPlus that the bug count starts to climb. Note that this is really an requirements problem, not a coding problem;So i understand that your company has no more programming problems, and this sounds very impressive.
You are probably somewhere between CMM 7 and 8 :-)
-- Lionel Draghi http://swpat.ffii.org/index.fr.html
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