Re: WSJ article on software liability

From: Jonathan Allan (Allan.Jonathan_at_6809.mayo.edu)
Date: 02/27/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 14:24:14 -0600

Traveler wrote:

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> The Silver Bullet or How to Solve the Software Crisis:
> http://users.adelphia.net/~lilavois/Cosas/Reliability.htm

Interesting. I wish you well. But let's just say I have my doubts.

Anyone with an understanding of how electronic parts are designed
and built wouldn't have written that web page the way you did. Refer
to this months issue of IEEE Computing for some examples that'll
curl your hair...

That said, this doesn't mean your approach is wrong, though off hand
I fail to see how it's much different than anything the real-time
folk have been working on for the last 40 years (but that may just
be because I'm insufficiently far-seeing).

One should note however, that what the lawyers think is important
usually wins, not what the technologists think is important. Ask
anyone in the real engineering professions about that point...

Jonathan 

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