Software perfection

[Edward A. Dauer]

You do exactly that every time you fly (commercial).

But it didn¹t stop me either.  That¹s what the humans are for.

Ted, KN1CBR (ex-CFI)

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>Message: 26
>Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 19:40:54 -0700
>From: Doug Person via Elecraft <[hidden email]>
>To: [hidden email]
>Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 bugs
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>After 40 years as a programmer in just about every imaginable platform
>and environment, I would agree.
>This statement is absolutely true.  To those who have never attempted
>programming, its hard to fully imagine just how complicated software
>really is.
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>Software written by the world's greatest programmer and tested by the
>world's greatest software tester would still be something I would never
>risk my life with.
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>73, Doug -- K0DXV
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[Mike Markowski-2]

Straight out of college I was one of 100+ design engineers on the Mode-S
FAA air traffic control system - multiprocessor, fault-tolerant system,
etc.  The design docs (let alone software) filled volumes.  Much as I
hope there were zero bugs in the complex system, it was after all
designed by people...

One thing I recall is that the FAA contract permitted 1 second of down
time per year.  :-)

73,
Mike ab3ap

On 01/16/2015 10:28 PM, Dauer, Edward wrote:

> You do exactly that every time you fly (commercial).
>
> But it didn¹t stop me either.  That¹s what the humans are for.
>
> Ted, KN1CBR (ex-CFI)
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>> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 19:40:54 -0700
>> From: Doug Person via Elecraft <[hidden email]>
>>
>> [...] Software written by the world's greatest programmer and tested by the
>> world's greatest software tester would still be something I would never
>> risk my life with.
>>
>> 73, Doug -- K0DXV

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[KEN-3]

>>
>> Software written by the world's greatest programmer and tested by the
>> world's greatest software tester would still be something I would never
>> risk my life with.


Weinberg's Second Law: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.


Ken WA8JXM (retired programmer)
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