[SystemSafety] Accuracy of COVID modeling code

[Derek M Jones]

Peter,

> It was obvious to anyone doing scientific computing in the 1970's that the accuracy of FP
> computations was dependent on the HLL used. Most people used Fortran for numerics, and no one used

Another example of your belief in the programming language as pixy dust theory.

I have seen inaccurate, poorly written numerics Fortran code,
and accurate well written numerics C code (and other languages).

Using a language thought to have some desirably characteristic
does not mean that the code written has this characteristic.

Languages do not come with a sachet of pixy dust to sprinkle on the code.

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Derek M. Jones           Evidence-based software engineering
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