Walter Bright wrote: > http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/thewrongstuff/archive/2010/06/28/risky- business-james-bagian-nasa-astronaut-turned-patient-safety-expert-on-being- wrong.aspx > > > tl;dr: "Telling people to be careful is not effective. Humans are not reliable > that way. ... You need a solution that's not about making people perfect." > > > This article doesn't say anything about software, but I think it is very > applicable to programming and the design of programming languages. I often > hear that a fault isn't a fault because we can "educate" programmers to avoid > the problem. This article puts the kibosh on that. Errors that we can > eliminate by changing the design of the language, we should so eliminate > (unless their costs make the language unuseable, obviously).
Very good article. I also liked this one, about the development done in the shuttle software group: http://www.fastcompany.com/node/28121/print It has similar conclusions about process and culture.
