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You will note the robustness principle applies to "code that sends commands or data to other machines", not people.
by duggan 9y ago
You will note the robustness principle applies to "code that sends commands or data to other machines", not people.
- bjourne 9y agoIt applies to human-to-human communication too. If a politician sends an ambiguous tweet, he or she will be blamed if the message is misunderstood. A marketing campaign can be accused of being racist even if the creators didn't intend it to be. If a worker doesn't understand a managers work orders, it is the managers fault -- not the workers, same thing with a student not understanding a professors lecture and so on.