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It's not like redundancy we are talking about in a bridge means having superfluous pillars but that it can fail gracefully that can be handled and fixed without
by djmips 8y ago
It's not like redundancy we are talking about in a bridge means having superfluous pillars but that it can fail gracefully that can be handled and fixed without catastrophe. Error checking can achieve a similar goal in software.
- jandrese 8y agoThat's exactly what we are talking about with bridge design: Overbuilding it so you can lose an element without the bridge collapsing. There really isn't a concept of a bridge "failing gracefully". Any failure is a disaster. You can talk about a bridge being functional even after it becomes weakened by the elements or overloading or poor maintenance or some other condition, but that is another case of overbuilding. I guess what I'm saying is that software and bridges are not very similar.