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It does though. My example of adding two ints within a known finite range would operate to spec 100% of the time. You would have to introduce things like toler
by fidotron 3y ago
It does though. My example of adding two ints within a known finite range would operate to spec 100% of the time.
You would have to introduce things like tolerance to hardware failure, but that is outside the spec of the software as stated.
- sanderjd 3y agoYes, but that's not real software.
- fidotron 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
- sanderjd 3y agoSome people obviously aren't true Scotsman... I'm from the US and have no attachment to Scotland; if I claimed to be a Scotsman and you pointed out that I'm not, and I said "well that's just the no true Scotsman fallacy!", then I would be totally full of it. In the same way I am not a real Scotsman, your toy example of an easily specified snippet of a function that doesn't do anything useful is not real software.
- bluGill 3y agoSure, but adding two ints is trivial. Hello world probably operates to spec all the time too. Almost all software is vastly more compelx and isn't perfect.
- philipwhiuk 3y ago> You would have to introduce things like tolerance to hardware failure, but that is outside the spec of the software as stated. No-one in the real world gives a damn about your 'spec of the software as stated'