On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 12:39:14PM PST, Moose Finklestein spake thusly: > insisting that things like this would never happen in physical > engineering. Wishful thinking. How many bridges failed due to poor > design? How many buildings have collapsed? He picks on the VW
I have *far* more confidence in the bridges and buildings than I do just about any piece of software. How many times has software crashed compared to bridges and buildings collapsed? I'm quire sure the difference is many orders of magnitude. Software is definitely much more art and less science compared to bridge building. I think the author is right but unfortunately tilting at windmills. > This guy does mention the issue of software being done slap-dash, but > spends little time on it, and more reminds me of the people who get > incensed at people with Ph.D.s and JDDs calling themselves "Doctor" > because they're not a medical doctor. I've never heard of anyone being even slightly annoyed at people with Ph.D.s and JDDs calling themselves doctor. -- Tracy Reed _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
