... if compilers and toolkits are certified by some board/government, ...

... require that there is some standardization in the world. As far as I know, there is no perlmonk who would vote against this idea.

• Isn't this Ada?
  Now, Ada has it's uses, but do we really want all software to look like that?
• The certifying experts can be wrong too. How does one decide who to sue?
• There is always a tradeoff between safety and freedom and, IMNSHO, the apparent gains of safety are seldom real and seldom worth the loss in freedom.
• Not all software is important enough to require certified programmers willing to bet their family's financial future on the likelyhood that their software won't fail.
• Laws already exist to handle the situations where it is important enough. If Boeing's new airliner starts falling out of the sky because some yayhoo wrote bad code, they're going to get in serious legal trouble, disclaimers of non-fitness for a particular purpose or not.

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