I've never heard of many ax related deaths and I'd imagine an out of control chainsaw is far more dangerous than an out of control ax. The vast majority of lumb

I've never heard of many ax related deaths and I'd imagine an out of control chainsaw is far more dangerous than an out of control ax. The vast majority of lumber industry related deaths are due to falling trees. If we took the chain saws away and replaced them with axes and hand saws, far fewer trees would fall. It would greatly reduce production, but I'm not convinced it would result in more deaths. Quite the opposite. I do get the point of your analogy, but it's really a very poor analogy. > If you can get bug-free programs for the same upfront cost as buggy ones (and my whole argument is that we can, but don't) This sounds like a massive market opportunity. One then wonders why absolutely no one has exploited the opportunity. There's something missing here.