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> Software engineering in life-critical applications is serious business. Probably one of the most tragic cases of a SW bug: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ther
by jrmenon 13y ago
> Software engineering in life-critical applications is serious business.
Probably one of the most tragic cases of a SW bug:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
- angersock 13y agoYep. And that's why you really, really want hardware failsafes in addition to whatever nonsense code you're writing.
- hga 13y agoTrue, but those are not always possible, nor can cover everything. What struck me the most was the criminal incompetence of the developers, both of the total system as it moved to software control and especially the software itself. Not to mention the Crown Corporation's response to the problem.