Re: Software should not have bugs

Ralf Fassel wrote:

My favourite in this respect is the monitoring program in 'Jurassic
Parc' which counted the dinosaurs in order to trigger an alarm if the
number was too low. Since they couldn't reproduce, there was no need
to trigger an alarm if the number was too high, was there?

Lack of distrust.

I currently see ( in the project I am involved in ) that there
is quite a difference as to what background you come from.
engineering/hardware or from a pure software background.

Some people write software as a dash to their target,

others employ gates to shoo the software flow away
from any dark corners they might get entangled in.

A third group is like Germany before the "Zollunion".
anally checking everything at every border passed.
taking their toll in time and a complete inability
to ever extend this software beyond its initial goals.

uwe







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