On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 17:19:49 +0200, Pierre Hanser wrote: > Carl Banks a écrit : >> >> This is starting to sound silly, people. Critical is a relative term, >> and one project's critical may be anothers mundane. Sure a flaw in >> your flagship product is a critical problem *for your company*, but are >> you really trying to say that the criticalness of a bad web search is >> even comparable to the most important systems on airplanes, nuclear >> reactors, dams, and so on? Come on. > > 20 years ago, there was *no* computer at all in nuclear reactors.
But they had electronic (analog) systems that were (supposedly) just as heavily regulated and scrutinized as the digital computers of today; and were a lot more scrutinized than, say, the digital computers that banks were using. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list