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Fear monger. What if what if what if... I'm not saying it couldn't happen, I'm just saying that possible new issues are no reason to persist the old issues
by GenerocUsername 13y ago
Fear monger. What if what if what if... I'm not saying it couldn't happen, I'm just saying that possible new issues are no reason to persist the old issues
- throwaway2048 13y agoThis is utter nonsense, "possible new issues" are every reason to carefully evaluate and weight new options.
- sukuriant 13y agoNo. It's a car, and has the power to kill people on software malfunction, making it a critical system. Critical systems are tend to go through a much greater and more robust form of testing.
- stcredzero 13y agoThe destructive potential of a car exceeds that of a lot of handguns one can buy. There have long been techniques for writing software as formal proofs of correctness. As far as I can tell, they haven't been popular with mainstream programmers because they are simply too different.
- sukuriant 13y agoThat is a really neat bit of fact; but, what does that have to do with what I was talking about? I really would like to know, it sounds like a really important insight, I'm just not sure what train of thought led to that.
- Fomite 13y agoNo, but "Cars do uncomfortable things at high velocity" is not exactly an edge case.