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In my past experience writing and compiling c and c++ on Radar software: The project was big and fair amount of legacy code, there were a fair amount of warnings in the c code. A lot of code was in Ada, which I grew to really appreciate, but for some things we needed code in c.

I started work on a new from the ground up simulator in c++. The 12+ coders got used to the warning = errors (Werror). I think it made us better coders. We were able to do that because the project was from the ground up new. Most projects in the Radar field use a lot of previously tested legacy code that does issue warnings.



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