I'm surprised [LWN.net]

I'm surprised

Posted Mar 9, 2006 7:26 UTC (Thu) by davidw (guest, #947)
In reply to: Python Beat Perl by a Tiny Margin; TCL Loses against even PHP by AnswerGuy
Parent article: Some notes from the Coverity survey

I am actually quite surprised that Tcl didn't do better. It has a pretty rigorous set of tests, and an active group of very good developers. If anything, I've always thought it moved a bit too slowly.

Here's a good article about Tcl, by the way:

"Tcl the Misunderstood":
http://antirez.com/articoli/tclmisunderstood.html

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I'm surprised

Posted Mar 9, 2006 9:24 UTC (Thu) by macc (guest, #510) [Link] (1 responses)

I picked one random report (tcl:69) and it
was a false positiv.
nothing more known at the moment.

They're working with beta code!

Posted Mar 9, 2006 20:10 UTC (Thu) by davidw (guest, #947) [Link]

Hrm. Seems sourceforge's archives are not caught up yet, but it appears that, at least with Tcl, they were testing it with the beta release. Of course, that's better for Tcl, but less a reflection of the defect rate in solid, released code...

Tcl

Posted Mar 14, 2006 17:15 UTC (Tue) by rwmj (subscriber, #5474) [Link]

Funnily enough at university I did a mix of static and dynamic analysis on Tcl's C source code (in fact on the full Tcl/Tk), and found it to be of very high quality. Of course my tools didn't compare at all to Coverity - nevertheless I was unable to find any problems at all automatically in Tcl/Tk, although I did in some other (now obsolete) packages - eg. microemacs.

Rich.