> See you are letting the software train you...
>
> Tell that to the folks who depend on software to
> control the space shuttle that determines whether
> they live or die...
>
> Of course.. software is to complicated now a days
> guess we will have to tell the NASA people to go
> ahead and shut down the space program...
Don't think that there aren't bugs in these sorts of systems too. Why do you
think the space shuttle has redundant systems?
I saw an interesting book recently, the name of which escapes me, which
talked about the effect of bugs on software projects. It discussed one well
known bug which was responsible for the death of a few people - a common
X-Ray system had a software problem which would occasionally cause the
patient to receive fatal amounts of radiation! I'm very happy to know that
as a CF programmer, no matter what I do wrong in my code, no one's going to
die.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
voice: (202) 797-5496
fax: (202) 797-5444
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