And of course "defect-free" is not the same thing as "very low defect."
In fact, I think it's most important to accept that with deliberate
programming, we can achieve good stability; we don't have to achieve that
hyperbolic goal of perfection. It may be a semantic argument, but I believe it
is important to qualify it before it goes too far.
On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 12:14:38PM -0800, Keith Ray wrote:
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> > It is folly to believe something you have never experienced directly.
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> I believe men landed on the moon, but I didn't go there myself. I
> believe India exists, though I haven't seen it with my own eyes.
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> I believe that teams _can_ produce software where the users are happy
> with it and the bug-rate is less than one bug per month and that Martin
> Fowler has mentioned a few of them here:
> <http://martinfowler.com/bliki/VeryLowDefectProject.html>
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