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The software industry has been a thing for over 60 years now, with the first commercial software company being founded in 1955 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So

The software industry has been a thing for over 60 years now, with the first commercial software company being founded in 1955 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_industry#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_industry#History). The first commercial aviation company was formed in 1909 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline#History), the FAA was founded in 1958 and the NTSB in 1967.... At some point the "we're in our infancy" stage has to end.

mruts 8y ago
Well ideally it would end when we know what the fuck we are doing.. the number of bugs I find in all sorts of software (with Apple being one of the worst offenders) is frankly embarrassing and a pox mark of the entire industry. If planes were as reliable as software they would be the leading cause of death in the world.
- dchichkov 8y ago
  I would recommend reading "Developing Safety-Critical Software: A Practical Guide for Aviation Software and DO-178C Compliance".
- bdamm 8y ago
  The software planes use is reliable.
trevyn 8y ago
The guidelines for safe aviation have way lower Kolmogorov complexity than the guidelines for safe “everything that software can do”-iation. It’s actually close to a subset when you think about it.