What every C Programmer should know about undefined behavior #2/3 [LWN.net]

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

Posted May 18, 2011 5:02 UTC (Wed) by price (guest, #59790)
In reply to: What every C Programmer should know about undefined behavior #2/3 by cmccabe
Parent article: What every C Programmer should know about undefined behavior #2/3

Huh, nice observation re: this technology being connected to the space race. I hadn't made that connection.

Definitely beats Tang, if you ask me.

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

Posted May 19, 2011 3:53 UTC (Thu) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link] (2 responses)

If Feynman is to be believed then a significant part of modern technological living was developed at least in part as part of the space race and this is evidence that this continues to be true at a smaller scale.

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

Posted May 19, 2011 13:11 UTC (Thu) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link] (1 responses)

Do not forget World War II just before that. In some cases the same people involved http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun

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

Posted May 19, 2011 18:01 UTC (Thu) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]

well that part of the space race was about who captured the better germans at the end.