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White House urges developers to dump C and C++ (www.infoworld.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Biden administration calls for developers to embrace memory-safe programing languages and move away from those that cause buffer overflows and other memory access vulnerabilities.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The distribution of skill in humans, for various tasks and abilities, can often be approximated by a normal distribution. In that case, as you know, the mean is equal to the average.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Yeah, fair enough

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Actually, in order to test your assumption, you'd need to quantitatively measure skill, which per se is something already problematic, but you'd also need to run a statistical test to confirm the distribution is a normal/Gaussian distribution. People always forget the latter and often produce incorrect statistical inferences.