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A Few Billion Lines of Code Later: Using Static Analysis to Find Bugs in the Real World

Posted by rkcr
Tags: static analysis, bugs, tools, long read
https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/2/69354-a-few-billion-lines-of-code-later/fulltext

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Authors
Al Bessey, Ken Block, Ben Chelf, Andy Chou, Bryan Fulton, Seth Hallem, Charles Henri-Gros, Asya Kamsky, Scott McPeak, Dawson Engler
Published
Jan 29 2010
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7615 words

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  1. rkcr
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    I found this old article to be a fun, practical view of static analysis tools. My favorite quote from it:

    I found this old article to be a fun, practical view of static analysis tools. My favorite quote from it:

    Parsing is considered a solved problem. Unfortunately, this view is naïve, rooted in the widely believed myth that programming languages exist.

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