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You're right, there are differences - medicine is more rigorous (in a sense), processes are more regulated, there's more "standard procedure" which is more spec
by ploxiln 10y ago
You're right, there are differences - medicine is more rigorous (in a sense), processes are more regulated, there's more "standard procedure" which is more specifically taught and widely followed.
But doctors screw up all the time. Sometimes it's dumb mistakes like instruments left in the body after surgery, or the wrong limb operated on. (Like failing to check length when copying a buffer perhaps? Sometimes it's just a bit embarrasing, sometimes catastrophic.) More often, it's just not finding the real cause of the "bug", applying a "fix" or "cleanup" that doesn't fix it.
- newman314 10y agoBut applying the same logic to other professions does not work in my opinion. For example, if a pilot screws up, people die, lots of people die. Unfortunately, there are a whole bunch of professions where it's not really ok to be "Oops, my bad". And those are the professions that I would say need the most rigor (yet with enough flexibility to catch unknown corner cases) in general. So it's not really debug but more likely post-mortem. =(