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Re:The Hundred-Year Language (2003) by mstolpm on Monday March 20, 2017 @03:25AM (#13912381)
> You can already see these methods being applied at scale in industries where "beat the other guy by a month" isn't important, but "don't crash the thing and kill 100 people" is.

This sounds to me like implying there are no recalls of goods by manufacturers in "matured" industries. But we have tons of recalls for cars, toys, food and gadgets. And that's just the tip of the iceberg, most bugs and vulnerabilities are never fixed. Even banking (remember the banking crisis?), insurance, infrastructure projects (airport BER) or utilities like power generation show that they don't work like you suggest matured industries work by at scale.

So what are the industries you're talking about that work at scale by "don't cash the thing"?

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Re:The Hundred-Year Language (2003) by throwaway729 on Monday March 20, 2017 @08:35AM (#13913552)
> But we have tons of recalls for cars, toys, food and gadgets

Most of these recalls aren't related to software. Regardless, systematic quality issues in each of those businesses have their own unique cultural origins.

> So what are the industries you're talking about that work at scale by "don't cash the thing"?

Aerospace, for one. Also chip design and fabrication.

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