At 3:55 +0000 30/3/16, Antony Barry wrote: >A programmer almost broke the Internet last week by deleting 11 lines of code >http://www.sciencealert.com/how-a-programmer-almost-broke-the-internet-by-deleting-11-lines-of-code
As a 1970s-80s developer, I find this astounding: >npm decided to take the unprecedented step of re-publishing the original >'left-pad' from a back up So no-one takes responsibility for the integrity of what we used to call subroutine libraries?! Ditto this bit: > ... with all the focus on kik, no one considered the ramifications of > deleting left-pad. I'll grant that a where-used analysis is challenging in the case of an open networked library, but if the 'architecture' is an amateurish as this, there are umpteen disaster scenarios waiting to be exploited. -- Roger Clarke http://www.rogerclarke.com/ Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd 78 Sidaway St, Chapman ACT 2611 AUSTRALIA Tel: +61 2 6288 6916 http://about.me/roger.clarke mailto:roger.cla...@xamax.com.au http://www.xamax.com.au/ Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law University of N.S.W. Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University _______________________________________________ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link