Experience has led me to conclude that modern software is both non-deterministic, and prone to accidents. Seriously, though... garbage collection, multiple pro

Experience has led me to conclude that modern software is both non-deterministic, and prone to accidents. Seriously, though... garbage collection, multiple processors, race conditions, networks, OS scheduler preemptions, cache evictions, branch mis-predictions, disk failures. Even without getting into drivers, the reason that software appears deterministic, is because we try our damnedest to maintain that illusion.