What every C Programmer should know about undefined behavior #2/3

It's also interesting that it was associated with the launch of a European rocket, Ariane 5. Everyone knows that the space race in the 1960s helped to push technology ahead in the United States; I guess that still happens, at least to a certain extent.

I think this kind of research is really interesting. It seems like it could help create more efficient compilers and perhaps better tools.

For what it's worth, I like static type systems. I really hope that in the future, we'll be able to have more and more information about programs even before running them. Programmers ought to be free from the drudgery of spotting typos or passing the wrong arguments to functions. Or even accidentally dereferencing a pointer before assigning it. As I said before, though, there are always things in the design that are impossible to "prove" (in the mathematical sense), like user interface, the performance of heuristic algorithms, and artistic design.